The economic crisis is getting deep in my village. Yesterday, the oldest daughter of my neighbors knocked the door and told that they don't have anymore food, diapers for the baby or any other basic things. I don't like giving alms. I'm not religious. I don't have Christian moral virtues. I don't believe in goodness but in justice.

My wife said that we buy groceries for the family in need but I decided that I hire the father to work for a month. I wish I could afford more but my own economical situation doesn't permit me to do it - since several months, I haven't sold any works. I still don't know what he can do. I think first he could go to cut some wood and when the carpenter finishes the painting bases I've ordered, he can help me with me my new series of monochromes.

Malevich's monochromes were revolutionary. I hope the revolution begins and we are soon living in a socialist world where everybody has enough to eat. Meanwhile, I've decided to be a millionaire and create as many jobs as possible.

I received this e-mail today (translated and slightly abbreviated):

Dear Friend of the Peace Movement,

The Finnish Committee of 100 celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. The festivities include a commemorative book, a seminar and a film week. We kick off with a fund-raising auction of art works and serve coffee and cake and continue with Partypax Club. Now we are looking for art works to go under the hammer for the cause of pacifist work. Do you have the opportunity to donate one of your works?

Best Regards, Eekku Aromaa, General Secretary of the 100 Committee

This was my reply:

Dear Eekku Aromaa,

Thank you for contacting me. I just had a look to your website and it seems that our perspectives concerning the civil war in Syria are very different. An article published on your website clearly backs the Islamic rebellion. If that represents the opinion of the Committee of 100, we stand on opposite sides. I support the legitimate government of the Syrian Arab Republic (in the article Assad) and the Syrian Arab Army (in the article Assad's troops) in the struggle against the rebellion sponsored by the NATO and the Gulf dictatorships (or should I speak about Obama's troops). It is very sad that a peace movement organization speaks for an armed insurrection aiming to establish Sharia and to commit an ethnic cleansing in Syria.

Best Regards, Riiko Sakkinen

The greatest art works are those that could have been done by anybody who has an outstanding idea. It's easy to produce awesome stuff if you have a large budget but I think money doesn't make ideas better.

I wrote down a set of rules called Less Than 10 Euros Dogma. Most of my works don't meet the rules but some of them do, like the list drawings (can't be framed) or some objects and actions. I can't be totally dogmatic or at least my production would be very low - I don't have that many great ideas.

LESS THAN 10 EUROS DOGMA

Production of an art work must not require
- technical skills or talent
- special tools or instruments
- studio space
- providers of any service
- assistants
- more than €10

Libraries gave us power
Then work came and made us free
What price now for a shallow piece of dignity
Manic Street Preachers: A Design for Life

Recently, British writer of children's bestsellers Terry Deary said public libraries are a drain on taxpayers and authors that no longer makes sense. Obviously, this is a normal right-wing statement but much more interesting was Mr. Deary demagogy in The Guardian’s interview: Bookshops are closing down because someone is giving away the product they are trying to sell. What other industry creates a product and allows someone else to give it away, endlessly? The car industry would collapse if we went to car libraries for free use of Porsches.

I´ve stated many times that I want socialism where everybody can drive a BMW. This means that there are wealth, luxury and sportscars available for everybody, of course, not as private property, but the same way we get now books from public libraries. Terry Deary’s nightmare is my dream. The dystopia of the European bourgeois is the utopia of the global working class.

Mr. Deary continues that librarians are lovely people and libraries are lovely places, but they are damaging the book industry. We the communists are lovely people too, but we want to nationalize the industry and distribute its products equally to everybody.

We all know the Che chic, a fashion trend featuring the Argentinian born Cuban revolutionary, Ernesto Che Guevara. Many anti-communists have been shocked to see how popular a Marxist hero can be and they have tried to explain that most of the people wearing a Che t-shirt don’t have a clue about communism.

You can buy anywhere in the world any object with Che’s face and the same applies to another revolutionary, Mao Zedong, who is still a huge icon in China. Beijing’s souvenir shops are full of mugs, umbrellas and clothing with the image of the great helmsman.

More surprising was to find chairman Mao on the front page of the website of my bank –  the Finnish subsidiary of the Danish Danske Bank. The image shows the Tiananmen gate of the Forbidden City with the portrait of Mao and the slogans Long Live the People's Republic of China and Long Live the Unity of the Peoples of the World. The text on the website reads: New normal. The world has changed and it requires a change in us too.

Meanwhile, I received an e-mail telling that I've been shortlisted for a painting competition of another bank. Have the bankers finally lost their blind faith in capitalism? Now they celebrate revolutionary leaders and communist artists.