Coleccion Noema: El Manifiesto Comunista de Karl Marx y Friedrich Engels (Paperback)

from ironicqueery

This reading brings up more questions than it answers. Part I is really good about explaining current conditions of the "proletariat". However, Part II, which seems like an attempt to explain why Communism is in the best interest for the masses, seems to be all dogma with little supporting fact b...

from amandacb

I took a graduate-level literary theory class and picked socialism as my topic of choice over which to complete a semester-long project and presentation. Boy, am I ever glad I did. I remember in high school I had heard so much negativity about communism and socialism; I cracked open my textbook t...

from chellinsky

Do not go looking here for a lengthy explanation about why Marx believes what he does. Rather, read the Manifesto to learn how he sold his ideas. For what it was designed to do, this book is excellent. For actually understanding Marx, the Manifesto is lacking. A closer look at some of his other w...

from DarthDeverell

The MacMillan Collector's Library edition of Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto includes the 1888 Samuel Moore translation of "The Communist Manifesto," "Wages, Price, and Profit" from 1898, and Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling's 1887 translation of "Capital." Hugh Griffith's introduction offers ...

from RobertDay

What to make of this slim volume that everyone has heard of but few have read? (And even fewer have read properly.) First, it's essential to dump your preconceptions, and forget world history since 1917. Marx (with the support of Engels) was describing the economic world as he saw it, based on hi...