The Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx · Friedrich Engels

Oct 2017 · Author's Republic · Narrated by Matt Montanez

About this audiobook

The Communist Manifesto was conceived as an outline of the basic beliefs of the Communist movement. The authors believed that the European Powers were universally afraid of the nascent movement, and were condemning as "communist," people or activities that did not actually conform to what the Communists believed. This Manifesto, then, became a manual for their beliefs.





In it we find Marx and Engel's rehearsal of the idea that Capital has stolen away the work of the artisan and peasant by building up factories to produce goods cheaply. The efficiency of Capital depends, then, on the wage laborers who staff the factories and how little they will accept in order to have work. This concentrates power and money in a Bourgeois class that profits from the disunity of workers (Proletarians), who only receive a subsistence wage.





If workers unite in a class struggle against the bourgeois, using riot and strikes as weapons, they will eventually overthrow the bourgeois and replace them as a ruling class. Communists further believe in and lay out a system of reforms to transform into a classless, stateless society, thus distinguishing themselves from various flavors of Socialism, which would be content to have workers remain the ruling class after the revolution.





The Manifesto caused a huge amount of discussion for its support for a forcible overthrow of the existing politics and society....

Ratings and reviews

This was the communist manifesto read all the way through. The narrator mispronounced Bourgeois and Proletariat throughout and rushed the reading so much that you can hear him breathe quickly as if he was in a race to say as many words as possible in a short amount of time. He forgot to edit out a mistake too where he lost his train of speaking and had the take a deep breath. I really wanted to understand this book but I might as well read it. I wish I could get my money back.

nice book which summaries that the Communist Manifesto Marx and Engels' theories concerning the nature of society and politics, namely that in their own words "[t]he history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles". It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism. In the last paragraph of the Manifesto, the authors call for a "forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions", which served as a call for communist revolutions around the world. The Communist Manifesto is divided into a preamble and four sections, the last of these a short conclusion. The introduction begins: "A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre." Pointing out that parties everywhere—including those in government and those in the opposition

En esta libro, nos enseña muchas aparte del comunismo que maneja es bastante amplio y satisfactorio en el sentido de conocimiento ya que la importancia de este es saberse expresar frente a los demás y seguir un idealismo propio ya que es algo muy original de parte de los autores proponerse en incrustar todas estas palabras en algo tan corto, desde mi punto de vista ellos querían reflejar mas pero "no les alcanzo el papel" como dicen en mi país para expresar todo lo que querían decir o de pronto no le era permitido gracias a esta lectura podemos descifrar que no podemos sentir mas puros respecto al lo que piensa cada persona o a lo que tanto nos enfrentamos al día a día que conocimientos abstractos pocos del saber y que no pueden entender esta clase de temas , este manifiesto es muy realista gracias por compartir esta lectura con nosotros es muy dificil encontrar tan absoluta sabiduria en tan pocas palabras vuelvo y lo digo , necesitamos mas cosas como estas para que el mundo se de cuenta que nos falta mucho por experimentar y desear a los demas no siendo mas dejo esta reseña de tan prestigioso tema GRACIAS.... es enserio.