dada wants:

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:


Before going down among you
to pull out your decaying teeth,
your running ears,
your tongues full of sores,

Before breaking your putrid bones,
Before opening your cholera-infested belly
and taking out for use as fertilizer
your too fatted liver,
your ignoble spleen
and your diabetic kidneys,

Before tearing out your ugly sexual organ,
incontinent and slimy,
Before extinguishing
your appetite for beauty,
ecstasy, sugar, philosophy,
mathematical and poetic metaphysical
pepper and cucumbers,

Before disinfecting you with vitriol,
cleansing you and shellacking
you with passion,

Before all that,
We shall take a big antiseptic bath,
And we warn you
We are murderers.


Manifesto signed by Ribemont-Dessaignes and read by seven people at the demonstration at the Grand Palais des Champs Elysees, Paris, 5 February 1920.