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The 'Communist Manifesto' after 150 years. (treatise on communism written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels)

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From: Monthly Review
Date: 19980501
Author:Wood, Ellen Meiksins

Karl Marx's and Friedrich Engels' book 'The Communist Manifesto' has been lauded as an unusual, influential and historical document as well as a prophetic analysis of politics, economics and culture. Yet the book is merely a manifesto or manifesto and not even a scholarly document.

The Communist Manifesto is just that: a manifesto. It is not a long and comprehensive scholarly study but a public declaration of a political program, a short and dramatic statement of purpose and a call to arms, written at a time of political ferment, on the eve of what turned out to be the nearest thing the ...

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