The Communist Manifesto
A Political Science, Nonfiction, European Literature book. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great...
Synopsis Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization,...
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- Pages: 128 pages
- ISBN: 9780141018935 / 141018933
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.Workingmen of all countries unite! Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto // And here it becomes evident that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law. It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state that it has to feed him instead of being fed by him. Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie; in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society.The essential condition for the existence, and... The free development of each is the condition for the free development of all. Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto //
I'm not entirely sure how you're supposed to rate the book that inspired so many dickheads to nurse grandiose ideas of taking over the world, but I'll play it safe and give it a neutral three stars. I didn't read this for pleasure, but for knowledge, as I wanted to see what are the root ideas to what we now,sneeringly, call "communism".... Regarding one of the most misunderstood political systems of our time (arguably along-side that of capitalism), the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is also in itself as misunderstood as communism, and is one of the most undervalued and shunned pieces of literature in history. Communism, as Marx and Engels... An introduction to a historical work (or any work for that matter) should not be a thorough deconstruction, undertaken from an ideologically opposite standpoint. The reader should be given an introduction and in fact (as much as possible) a defense of the work. This introduction sets out to do the opposite. I don't have a problem with...
