The Communist Manifesto

Posted on 02 January 2018 by Karl Marx

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto is edited with an introduction by Gareth Stedman Jones in Penguin Classics.Marx and Engels s revolutionary summons to the working classes, The Communist Manifesto is one of the most important political theories ever formulated After four years of collaboration, they produced an incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage a society without classes, private property or a state, arguing that the exploitation of industrial workers will eventually lead to a revolution in which Capitalism is overthrown This vision provided the theoretical basis of political systems in Russia, China, Cuba and Eastern Europe, affecting the lives of millions The Communist Manifesto still remains a landmark text a work that continues to influence and provoke debate on capitalism and class.Gareth Stedman Jones s extensive and scholarly introduction provides an unique assessment of the place of The Communist Manifesto in history, and its continuing relevance as a depiction of global capitalism This edition reproduces Samuel Moore s translation of 1888 and contains a guide to further reading, notes and an index.Karl Marx 1818 1883 was born in Trier, Germany and studied law at Bonn and Berlin He settled in London, where he studied economics and wrote the first volume of his major work, Das Kapital1867, with two further volumes in 1884 and 1894 He is buried in Highgate Cemetery, London.Friedrich Engels 1820 1895 , as well as his collaboration with Marx, was the author of The Condition of the Working Class in England 1845 , based on personal observations and research.If you enjoyed The Communist Manifesto, you might like Marx s Capital, also available in Penguin Classics The words of the Communist Manifesto flare like the fiery writing on the wall above the crumbling bastions of capitalist society socialism or barbarismRosa Luxemburg New Download [ The Communist Manifesto ] Author [ Karl Marx ] – kino-fada.fr Long overdue update 2013 I read this book five years ago and in almost every respect, I have mellowed considerably.You can read my review below It s unchanged You can read the comments below that Also unchanged.I never seriously expected anyone to read this review, much less love or hate it so strongly I am not apologizing for my view of the book or Marx He put his entire life into this slender and influential book, and I respect that I understand a bitabout where he was coming fr Long overdue update 2013 I read this book five years ago and in almost every respect, I have mellowed considerably.You can read my review below It s unchanged You can read the comments below that Also unchanged.I never seriously expected anyone to read this review, much less love or hate it so...Read this and understand why your imperialist capitalist government spent the better part of a century playing hot potato with ICBMs, invading and incinerating peaceful, peasant countries, and making your mom and dad piss themselves under school desks The elite were scared shitless and by no means would they allow their slaves, errr labor force, a fraction of freedom or equality or means to resist The 60 year propaganda campaign against Communism and the virtual disappearance of strong labor u Read this and under...Communism doesn t work Its ideals are perfectly understandable, justifiable even, but the way it seeks to attain them, that s just terrible In reality communist policy falls apart or isn t fully followed The driving force is to achieve a classless rather than class based society Sounds good on paper doesn t it But in order to achieve such a thing, the manifesto proposes a revolution that will wipe out private property This isthan following the march of history Mankind has seen count Communism doesn t work Its ideals are perfectly understandable, justifiable even, but the way it seeks to attain them, that s just terrible In reality communist policy falls apart or isn t fully followed The driving force is to achieve a classless rather than class based society Sounds good on paper doesn t it But in order to achieve such a thing, the manife...This tract by Marx and Engels is too enormous in implication to review fully in the small little space that GR allows, so what I ll do for now is take extracts from it and comment on them, piece by piece.Per the MaifestoAbolition of the family Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based On capital, on private gain In its completely d... EH You know Marx Reading Marx is like fucking a microwaved squash everyone s got to do it eventually, but you probably shouldn t get so into it that you start joining a club Because the next thing you know you ll be standing on the back of a personnel transport humorlessly waving a huge flag and screaming through a bullhorn at a bunch of people who made the fatal mistake of not agreeing with you, while your comrades herd them through barbed wire lined corrals with rifle butts and wait, EH You know Marx Reading Marx is like fucking a microwaved squash everyone s got to do it eventually, but you probably shouldn t get so into it that you start joining a club Because the next thing you know you ll be standing on the back of a personnel transport humorlessly waving a huge ...It is an error to assume that the problem with humanity is an inability to recognize our own problems While it s true that we constantly look outside for answers, this is just because we are unhappy with the answers we have We know that success requires hard work and knowledge, but we want something easier We will accept an easier answer even when it isn t true We are not motivated by what is true or likely, but by frightening or enticing stories.We are driven away from the necessary and the It is an error to assume that the problem with humanity is an inability to recognize our own problems While it s true that we constantly look outside for answers, this is just because we are unhappy with the answers we have We know that success requires hard work and knowledge, but we want something easier We will accept an easier answer even when it isn t true We are not motivated by what is true or likely, but by frightening or enticing stories.We are driven away from the necessary and the difficult by our inadequacies and fears, and so rarely move ourselves any closer to fulfillment In a perversity of justice, those who do achieve the things which we imagine would fulfill us wealth, fame, beauty, genius are noful...Its awful fun to grow up marxist in the US You get to go to meetings where you, as a kid, soon realize there s no point in paying attention so off you go with the other rowdy tots into the ghetto to make trouble with whatever you find to hand.And you get to read this novella and if you re bored and underchallenged but over bothered you can begin to argue against american capitalist imperialism and the growth of consumerist doctrine using your new found propaganda skills til you bait a teacher i Its awful fun to grow up marxist in the US You get to go to meeting...2011 thoughtsA very important book at the time it was written Some would conclude that it was the threat of the Communist that reformed the system to allow for leisure time for the working class Organized labor reformed American business and transformed Europe Americans still greatly oppose communism socialism in all it forms except for social security, medicare, public roads and parks, ...What can I say Marx was right Almost.

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02 January 2018

Karl Marx