The Communist Manifesto-THE most influential 19th century book?

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Originally Posted by Dinkleberry2010

The simple truth is that The Communist Manifesto had little if any influence on the revolutions that occurred in the nineteenth century. It had some influence on the twentieth century revolutions. To call The Communist Manifesto "great" is simply ridiculous. Marx and communism in general has been discredited for quite awhile. They were both failures, and to state that The Communist Manifesto still has influence simply displays a gross ignorance of both history and political theory.

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Agree

Notwithstanding what I have read here, arguments for and against the Communist Manifesto I want to affirm that Marx was really a great revolutionist. I do not agree that the type of communism we have today in the world was what Marx dreamed of. It is not a theorist to account for all this it is the practice posthumously in a different geopolitical environ.

There too many holes in capitalism and we know capitalism did not work as it was supposed to. Despite there were a faction of politicians, diehards strongly advocating for capitalism, but most of us know capitalism does not work

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Originally Posted by blazeofglory

Notwithstanding what I have read here, arguments for and against the Communist Manifesto I want to affirm that Marx was really a great revolutionist. I do not agree that the type of communism we have today in the world was what Marx dreamed of. It is not a theorist to account for all this it is the practice posthumously in a different geopolitical environ.

There too many holes in capitalism and we know capitalism did not work as it was supposed to. Despite there were a faction of politicians, diehards strongly advocating for capitalism, but most of us know capitalism does not work

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Of course there are holes all over the place in any economic system. But it is known today that so-called capitalism leads toward evolutionary socialism. The USA today is the most socialistic system on earth and keeps going in that direction with no other system to stop either the USA or globalization of it.
And of course we have diehard mongers all over. Inconsequential, no matter how much noise they make.