The worst enemy - Немецкий


 The worst enemy of the worker,
 these are not the soldiers;
 it is not the City Council,
 than mountain Lord not prelates.
 His worst enemy is smart and small
 in his own Reihn, in his own Reihn.

 Who something can discuss
 even know who read Marx,
 considers himself already for a man
 and a höh'res beings.
 The projects a small thumb
 from his own Reihn, from his own Reihn.

 Who knows nothing of the class struggle
 and none of revolutions;
 who strikes before all steam
 and fear of blue beans.
 Wants only into the Reichstag
 from his own Reihn, from his own Reihn.

 Knocks the still Regierungsrat
 on the shoulder: "Well, my dear ..."
 then he forgets the whole proletariat -
 this is the worst caliber.
 No landowner's so mean
 as from its own Reihn how from its own Reihn.

 Fit care! As is your enemy,
 of a hundred times betrayed!
 The big shots like praise combines
 National and Democrats.
 Freedom? Salvation? Good night.
 You are deprived of the fruit of your suffering.
 That makes: you could not you befrein
 of the enemy from their own Reihn,
 of the enemy from their own Reihn.1926