[lbo-talk] Doug Greene on The Communist Manifesto: A weapon of war

Jim Farmelant farmelantj at juno.com
Thu Sep 15 16:40:50 PDT 2016


With the exception of the Bible, no other work in history has been more praised and denounced, analyzed and criticized, both seriously and superficially, than the Communist Manifesto. Whenever the ruling class imposes censorship on works which contain “subversive” ideas, the Communist Manifesto is inevitably at the top of the list. Students of history, politics, philosophy, sociology and economics who ignore the impact of the Communist Manifesto, do so at their peril. The Communist Manifesto is the one piece of writing by Marx and Engels that most people, not merely leftists, have read. It has been translated into almost every major language in the world and is the most influential political pamphlet ever written. There is not a single wasted word in the Communist Manifesto with its sweeping historical vision that simultaneously indicts and praises the capitalist order, while call upon the workers of the world to take action to overthrow it. Despite being written over 160 years ago, the Communist Manifesto remains as relevant as ever. For generations of workers, socialists and communists, whether in factories, manning the barricades, students, guerrillas in the jungles and hills, the Communist Manifesto was, and remains, a weapon of war.

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