Sergio Raimondi
WEIL BROTHERS
One of the ‘big four’ exporting companies
set up in Argentina at the end of the 1800s
ecstasy of international division of production
That’s to say: rapid expansion of the local farming area
sowing seed by hand maize and Barletta wheat
in the air one hand from the millions that arrived
from the Italian or Iberian Peninsula with ancient memories
of the fertile rhythms of Ceres and the Lupercalian feasts
completely useless for this soil, with no rocks and almost
no limits, to rent badly and pay with a potential
harvest in the face of hail and once again locusts
or the labourers and hobos of all sorts for reaping
the use of the harvester if they invested in capital grain
more grain grain threshing and a long spell at the station
after the obligatory bagging stacked high in the cart
and the loss of one or more zeros given the ignorance
of the sudden positive or negative movements
of the prices on a board on the other side of the world
cablegrams from London or Rotterdam or Antwerp
to pass on information to the local agents of,
well, e.g., this company whose income for years
funded the research work of the Frankfurt School
dedicated to elegantly superseding the orthodox
economicist and mechanistic view of base-superstructure.
WEIL BROTHERS
Een van de ‘grote vier’ exportbedrijven die zich eind
negentiende eeuw in Argentinië hebben gevestigd
hoogtijdagen van de internationale productieverdeling
Dat wil zeggen: lokaal snel oprukkende landbouwgrenzen
breedwerpig gezaaide maïs en meerdere soorten Barletta-graan
in de lucht een hand van de miljoenen neergestreken arbeiders
van het Italiaanse of Iberische schiereiland met hun oerkennis
van de vruchtbare ritmes van Ceres en de Lupercalia-feesten
volstrekt nutteloos op deze rotsloze en haast onbegrensde
akkers om een dure pacht te betalen met een potentiële
opbrengst in weerwil van hagelbuien en sprinkhanenzwermen
of van dagloners en allerhande slag landlopers voor de oogst
gebruik van de maaibinder als erin was geïnvesteerd schoven
schoven nog meer korenschoven dorsen en na de verplichte
zakking de lange weg richting station de lading hoog op de kar
en hier en daar het verlies van een nul door gebrekkige
kennis over het bruuske stijgen en dalen van de prijzen
die aan de andere kant van de wereld op de borden staan
telegrammen uit Londen of Rotterdam of Antwerpen
om informatie te verstrekken aan vertegenwoordigers van,
nou, bijv., dit bedrijf waarvan de opbrengsten jarenlang
onderzoek van de Frankfurter Schule subsidieerden
gewijd aan het elegant overstijgen van het orthodoxe
economistische en mechanistische model van basis/bovenbouw.
WEIL BROTHERS
Una de las «cuatro grandes» compañías exportadoras
afincadas en la Argentina a fines del siglo diecinueve
éxtasis de la división internacional de la producción
Es decir: rápida expansión de la frontera agrícola local
siembra al voleo de maíz y variedad de trigo Barletta
en el aire una mano de las millones de manos arribadas
de la península itálica o ibérica con una memoria secular
de los ritmos fértiles de Ceres y las fiestas lupercalias
completamente inútil para estos suelos sin roca y casi
sin linde para arrendar mal y pagar con una cosecha
potencial ante el granizo y el retorno de la langosta
o de los braceros y crotos de todo tipo para la siega
el uso de la espigadora si se invirtió en capital parvas
más parvas parvas trilla y largo trecho a la estación
tras el embolsado obligado la estiba alta en el carro
y la pérdida de uno que otro cero ante la ignorancia
de los movimientos bruscos de ascenso y descenso
de los precios en pizarras del otro lado del mundo
cablegramas desde Londres o Rotterdam o Amberes
para distribuir la información a los agentes zonales de,
bueno, p. ej. esta empresa cuyas rentas financiaron
durante años los estudios de la Escuela de Frankfurt
dedicados a superar con elegancia la visión ortodoxa
economicista y mecanicista de base-superestructura.
WEIL BROTHERS
One of the ‘big four’ exporting companies
set up in Argentina at the end of the 1800s
ecstasy of international division of production
That’s to say: rapid expansion of the local farming area
sowing seed by hand maize and Barletta wheat
in the air one hand from the millions that arrived
from the Italian or Iberian Peninsula with ancient memories
of the fertile rhythms of Ceres and the Lupercalian feasts
completely useless for this soil, with no rocks and almost
no limits, to rent badly and pay with a potential
harvest in the face of hail and once again locusts
or the labourers and hobos of all sorts for reaping
the use of the harvester if they invested in capital grain
more grain grain threshing and a long spell at the station
after the obligatory bagging stacked high in the cart
and the loss of one or more zeros given the ignorance
of the sudden positive or negative movements
of the prices on a board on the other side of the world
cablegrams from London or Rotterdam or Antwerp
to pass on information to the local agents of,
well, e.g., this company whose income for years
funded the research work of the Frankfurt School
dedicated to elegantly superseding the orthodox
economicist and mechanistic view of base-superstructure.
WEIL BROTHERS
One of the ‘big four’ exporting companies
set up in Argentina at the end of the 1800s
ecstasy of international division of production
That’s to say: rapid expansion of the local farming area
sowing seed by hand maize and Barletta wheat
in the air one hand from the millions that arrived
from the Italian or Iberian Peninsula with ancient memories
of the fertile rhythms of Ceres and the Lupercalian feasts
completely useless for this soil, with no rocks and almost
no limits, to rent badly and pay with a potential
harvest in the face of hail and once again locusts
or the labourers and hobos of all sorts for reaping
the use of the harvester if they invested in capital grain
more grain grain threshing and a long spell at the station
after the obligatory bagging stacked high in the cart
and the loss of one or more zeros given the ignorance
of the sudden positive or negative movements
of the prices on a board on the other side of the world
cablegrams from London or Rotterdam or Antwerp
to pass on information to the local agents of,
well, e.g., this company whose income for years
funded the research work of the Frankfurt School
dedicated to elegantly superseding the orthodox
economicist and mechanistic view of base-superstructure.
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