The Communist Manifesto
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Published in 1848, at a time of political upheaval in Europe, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's Manifesto for the Communist Party was at once a powerful critique of capitalism and a radical call to arms.
It remains the most incisive introduction to the ideas of Communism and the most lucid…
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I grew up in a politically active family but had never read The Communist Manifesto. Martin Rowson's adaption blew me away.
The book opens with an amazing series of spreads; in bold black and white and blood-splatted red, he charts the development of human history from the serfdom of early civilisations through the Middle Ages, up to the slave trade, the age of revolutions and the Industrial Revolution that ripped workers away from life in the fields and into factory labour and then on.
From this, Marx and Engels begin their walk through the rest of the book, announcing,…
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