<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><b>RICHARD HUELSENBECK AND RAOUL HAUSMANN “What is Dadaism and what does it want in Germany?” (1919)</b></div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times">1<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><i>Dadaism demands:</i></div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times">1)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The international revolutionary union of all creative and intellectual men and women on the basis of radical Communism;</div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times">2)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The introduction of progressive unemployment through comprehensive mechanization of every field of activity. Only by unemployment does it become possible for the individual to achieve certainty as to the truth of life and finally become accustomed to experience;</div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times">3)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The immediate expropriation of property (socialization) and the communal feeding of all; further, the erection of cities of light, and gardens which will belong to society as a whole and prepare man for a state of freedom.</div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times">2<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><i>The Central Council demands:</i></div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times">a)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Daily meals at public expense for all creative and intellectual men and women on the Potsdamer Platz (Berlin);</div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times">b)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Compulsory adherence of all clergymen and teachers to the Dadaist articles of faith; c)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The most brutal struggle against all directions of so-called “workers of the spirit” (Hiller,</div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times">Adler), against their concealed bourgeoisism, against expressionism and post-classical</div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times">education as advocated by the Sturm group; d)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>The immediate erection of a state art center, elimination of concepts of property in the</div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times">new art (expressionism); the concept of property is entirely excluded from the super-</div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times">individual movement of Dadaism which liberates all mankind; e)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Introduction of the simultaneist poem as a Communist state prayer; f)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Requisition of churches for the performance of bruitism, simultaneist and Dadaist poems; g)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Establishment of a Dadaist advisory council for the remodeling of life in every city of</div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times">over 50,000 inhabitants; h)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Immediate organization of a large scale Dadaist propaganda campaign with 150 circuses</div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times">for the enlightenment of the proletariat; i)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Submission of all laws and decrees to the Dadaist central council for approval; j)<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Immediate regulation of all sexual relations according to the views of international</div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times">Dadaism through establishment of a Dadaist sexual center.</div>
<div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times">The Dadaist revolutionary central council. German group: Hausmann, Huelsenbeck Business Office: Charlottenburg, Kantstrasse 118. Applications for membership taken at business office.</div><div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><br></div><div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times">Greetings,</div><div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times"><br></div><div style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times">Fuck Nato</div></div></div></body></html>