For Any Leftist Who Has Spent Too Much Time in Meetings…

…You aren’t alone!

This was the utopian conclusion to visionary Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky’s 1922 poem “All Meetinged Out.”

It’s early morning;

I greet the dawn with a dream:

“Oh, how about

just

one more meeting

regarding the eradication of all meetings!”

Lenin was not a fan of the experimental Mayakovsky (Stalin, on the other hand, would later write that “Mayakovsky was and remains the best and most talented poet of our Soviet epoch.”) Even so, Lenin valued “All Meetinged Out” for its anti-bureaucratic sentiment.