AcknowledgementsIntroduction 1. Preface 2. The Reception of the Manifesto 3. The 'Spectre of Communism' 4. The Communist League 5. Engels' Contribution 6. Marx's Contribution: Prologue 7. The Young Hegelians (i) Hegel and Hegelianism (ii) The Battle over Christianity and the Emergence of the Young ...
Read this for school. This is a must read, for sure. It does not matter if you do believe or if you do not believe in this ideal, you must read it for a wider knowledge on the topic and forget the only example the World ever had of this, the URSS.
Of course, such a book has suffered the pass of time, as the writers acknowledge in later prefaces. I skipped several sections entirely; there's one chapter devoted to listing which communist literature of the time was any good.As for the rest, I found it much easier to read than I expected, even if...
Ok, I'm not saying that I believe in communism. I think that it has been clearly shown time and time again that it doesn't work. That said, this book by the founders of communist thought outlines what communism was orignially envisioned to be. It is a fascinating study in the light of history and...
Somehow it just seemed right and fitting that I should read The Communist Manifesto over Fourth of July weekend. "WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!" 2.5 stars Marx has some valid points, and some of his ideas are actually in use in the U.S.(gasp!). A prose stylist he was not. This is very conv...
Wow, I don't know anything at all about this stuff. I realized as I read the intro that I only have the vaguest idea about any of the following:- Communism- Capitalism - oh, that dude Adam Smith, like, invented it! I get it now!- The Industrial Revolution - other than something about factories- Th...
There was a time when I thought that Karl Marx was a legend - those times are now long past. This book is the cornerstone of the communist revolutions (or attempted revolutions) that swept the world in the first half of the 20th Century and then led to some incredibly intolerant and brutal regimes t...
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