The Communist Manifesto: & Selected Writings (Macmillan Collector's Library Book 180)
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| Rating | : | 4.48 (860 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B07227D21D |
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| Number of Pages | : | 204 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Courtney said Worth the read. Whether you agree with the ideas or not, it's a good way to familiarize yourself with the ideology. Short enough, but delves into condescension too often.. "It might be my age-60 but" according to Amazon Customer. The font they used makes it hard to read.. A Classic, Somewhat Accessible M. Henderson Of course, it is arguably among the greatest books of the Western world because of its reception, impact, original thought, and its insight into ideas that shape our world. I felt that one reading was not enough. The next time I read it, I will pay more attention to the jargon and the way it would have been interpreted by a contemporary
This Macmillan Collector’s Library edition contains the most salient extracts from his great work, selected and introduced by Hugh Griffith.Whilst old-style Marxism is now dead and buried, today's conflicts within capitalism are as sharp as ever and Marx’s brilliant, painstaking writings remain incredibly relevant.Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Next in this volume comes his treatise, Wages, Price and Profit, written in 1865, which serves as an accessible introduction to the ideas which Marx went on to deve
. 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. "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. Their spectre, manifested in the Manifesto's vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even af