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"A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of The Communist Manifesto, commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document's continued relevance. Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. Their spectre, manifested in the Manifesto's vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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May 1 to honor the 150th anniversary of the original publication of Marx and Engels's masterpiece with this quality, affordable hardcover. This edition contains a new introduction by historian Eric Hobsbawn, who insists that the work should be read not only as a great work of literature but that, 150 years later, it still has much to teach us for the next millennium.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, May 20 2004

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An excellent book. It is short and to the point. It may still happen in the future. Capitalism is surely not the last economic and social order of history. Stalin was definitely not a Marxist. Please don't confuse Marxism with Stalin and his gross abuses. Highly recommended. Humans are generally too selfish to implement everything he advocates..... at least in the present time!

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1.0 out of 5 stars Except for the mountains of corpses,a funny book, July 21 2002

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This is not a book on economics,it is strictly ideology palmed off as some great humanitarian tract in order to assuage one man's guilty conscience over never having worked a day in his ne'er-do-well-life.Marx may have railed at the capitalist but he sure didn't mind freeloading off the capital of others for the duration of his loafer's paradise life!His 'economic'theories have been refuted so many times,notably by Von Mises and Hayek,that only the ideological aspect of his work remains.

Amazingly,there are those who still cling to Marx and believe his ideas were 'noble' but were hijacked by bad people.To read The Communist Manifesto is to know that totalitarianism is inherent to the ideology.Where the state is the meaning and final arbiter of the value of human life then the value of an individual human life has been reduced to that of a mere slave.That Marxist governments everywhere brought about deaths by the millions,squalor,slave labor camps and despair is hardly an accident.That the people living within Marxist dystopias tried to escape their barbed-wired,concrete-walled,guard-towered prison fortresses at the first opportunity is also no accident.And as for the charges of 'imperialism'laid against Western governments,there were no worse imperialists than the Marxist governments,as the people of Poland,Hungary,South Korea,Taiwan,Afghanistan,The Czech Republic,Romania and numerous people of other places can attest to.

It is no exaggeration to say that Marxism is the most corpse-producing ideology in the history of humanity.All the religious wars throughout history didn't wipe out as many people as did Marxists governments in a short 70 years.That anyone today could ascribe some nobleness to such a deadly,anti-human,anti-life,two-bit quasi religion of guilt-ridden trust fund babies and freeloaders is nothing short of miraculous.

Lifelong college students still living at home in mama's basement at the age of 35,would-be Stalin's and Pol Pot's,amnesiacs,those who learn nothing from history,brain-fried professors holed up in the dark recesses of academic anti-reality and guilty white liberals of the world unite!

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1.0 out of 5 stars Karl Marx was wrong., Jan 5 2002

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Everything that Marx and Engels expounded in the hard to read piece of garbage was wrong. If you want to read it because of its historical novelty, that's one thing; but if you are reading it to "learn" something, you are only oppressing yourself.

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