The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx · Friedrich Engels

May 2014 · Sold by Harper Collins

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In 1847, while in Brussels, the German Communist League asked Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx to draft a pamphlet on the principles of communism. It was published in 1848 under the title Manifesto of the Communist Party, and in it, Marx and Engels discuss the basic communist theories on society, economics, class struggles and politics.

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This book is extremely inaccurate. It claims to be the "Communist Manifesto", yet it doesn't even outline real communism. The ideology in this book has been used in a way that has killed millions of people, so it is obviously not real communism. Real communism is an ideology that creates a perfect utopian society where everyone is happy, but this hasn't been tried yet. Even though communism has failed in Afghanistan, Albania, Angola, Benin, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Congo, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia, East Germany, Grenada, Hungary, Mongolia, Mozambique, Poland, Romania, the Soviet Union, Somalia, South Yemen, and Yugoslavia, that is because they foolishly didn't try real communism. Now that we have learned lessons from history, we must implement real communism in the United States to make it the best country in the world. It is very unfortunate that this book only contains bad, fake communism.

An unintelligent manifesto for unintelligent dupes. Reads like your average sleazy sales pitch: Marx tells you five things you agree with in hopes you'll buy the next thing he says. No actual arguments or logic whatsoever. Communism is such a horribly stupid idea that it's hard to believe people keep falling for it. Read Mises' "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth" to learn why.

Always humorous to see white collar trust fund babies saying, "working men unite," while the actual working class hates Communism and loves capitalism. I wonder if modern communists realize the proletariat hates them, and if a communist revolution ever happened, these upper-middle class communists would be the first ones lined up against a wall by Commissar Jamal and Commissar Cletus, the rednecks and hoodrats who would invariably end up as the enforcers of party law. They would take out their rage on their former masters. Who are you, the readers of this book. You just don't realize you're in the top 2 percent of the world's income, because all your neighbors are too, and so you feel average. But you aren't. You aren't part of the rebellion . You're the target. The "racists," the "thugs" the "lower class bigots" the "sexists" and all the other buzzwords you like to label people with would be the ones in power. This happens every 10 years somewhere in the world, it's the same every time. It takes a sheltered first world snowflake to ignore the universal story of every refugee fleeing communism.

About the author

Described as one of the most influential figures in human history, Karl Marx was a German philosopher and economist who wrote extensively on the benefits of socialism and the flaws of free-market capitalism. His most notable works, Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto (the latter of which was co-authored by his collaborator Friedrich Engels), have since become two of history’s most important political and economic works. Marxism—the term that has come to define the philosophical school of thought encompassing Marx’s ideas about society, politics and economics—was the foundation for the socialist movements of the twentieth century, including Leninism, Stalinism, Trotskyism, and Maoism. Despite the negative reputation associated with some of these movements and with Communism in general, Marx’s view of a classless socialist society was a utopian one which did not include the possibility of dictatorship. Greatly influenced by the philosopher G. W. F. Hegel, Marx wrote in radical newspapers from his young adulthood, and can also be credited with founding the philosophy of dialectical materialism. Marx died in London in 1883 at the age of 64.