The Communist Manifesto
Context setting including pre Marxian theories, religion, contemporaries and how they fell out with them. Also analysis of what Marx and Engels separately brought to the Party. Then various prefaces to international editions written by Engels and at page 321 we start. The manifesto itself is a mere 50 pages of this edition so the bulk of the work, introduction and notes, is by Gareth Stedman Jones who should take a lot of credit. A very interesting and critical read well recommended. I won't go into the content as I couldn't do such a wide ranging and deep work justice. Suffice to say if the language was different the main thrusts could have been written today as there is still massive resource, exploitation going on in the world, economies and politics are still ruled by capital and many are still alienated by their daily work if they are lucky ? enough to get it. Has aged well.
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