Commenticius Combibo (Lady Amherst’s Lesser Big-eared Ring-necked Semi-collared Bar-headed Pink-footed Red-Eyed Short-arsed Buff-bellied Fanny-tailed Ruddy-cheeked Needle-nobbed Trustafarian Bean Warbling Uphill Oystercatching Snipe)
This seabird has flourished in the Isle of Man, Switzerland and North Korea where it has been saved from extinction by its careful emancipation from the conditions of late capitalism. In late capitalist societies such birds are controlled by a pitiless law usually beyond their comprehension. The alienated avian specimen is tied to ‘nature’ by an invisible umbilical cord: the law of value.This law acts upon all aspects of its life, shaping its course and destiny. No so for the Commenticius Combibo for it has been selectively bred as a vanguard, to carry the torch of our great undertaking onward and reach the goal of communism via unilateral and equivocal demands for collaboration horizontally, globally and around the world. Its wings take it up towards a higher plateau where it builds a communist avian society. The eye is entirely black (except for albinos). As the bird matures its eyes allow it to swiftly recognise and struggle against all sorts of opportunistic tendencies, allowing it to create a framework to improve international agitation and mobilise migrating masses of comrade seabirds. The species is categorically against the uneven economic development and social exclusion that flourishes under the conditions of late capitalism. It lives within a commune wherein all decisions are made by committees of like-minded birds, decisions that can often involve years of hard struggle against the difficulties of construction, class enemies, the maladies of the past and Darwinism. A keen environmentalist and advocate of free love, the specimen depicted here can be seen taking a condom back to its nest which it will share with its feathered comrades during an orgy. In such ways it is continuing to develop friendly relations with those birds who wish good relations on the basis of equality that serves international understanding and world peace. The road for the Commenticius Combibo is long and, in part, unknown but it will undoubtedly show the way to a happy future for all creatures of the sky.
