The Communist Manifesto (Little Black Classics #20)
'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes - one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics...
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'The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains.' Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes - one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from aro
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780141397986 (0141397985)
Publisher: Eric Hobsbawm. Try that.
Pages no: 64
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
School,
European Literature,
Economics,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology,
German Literature,
Political Science
Basically a really complicated pamphlet, though it has some good sections.
This was part of the Little Black Classics collection from Penguin I'm reading my way through. And while I'm really glad there is a great variety of different kinds of books in this collection, there have been some disappointments on the way. I was interested in reading The Communist Manifesto, not ...
A seminal work, which offers an interesting, if dated, critique of capitalism and an alternative way of perceiving the world's dominant system of social organization. Certainly the thoughts expressed by Marx lays bare the assumptions which accompany our embrace of capitalism, but its longevity may o...
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, born in Prussia in the 19th Century, were German philosophers. Along with other Communists, they wrote The Communist Manifesto in London and translated it in to several other languages. It is regarded as the best work of literature regarding Communism and is still as ...