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Summary: the alienated browser
Review: I don't know anything about this particular edition of the Manifesto. But after reading the posts of others, I was so disheartened I couldn't resist writing a response. People who claim Marx and Ricardo (an apologist for capitalism) are similar, who claim Marx = murder, who claim Marx is responsible for misery everywhere, know so embarrassingly little about the Manifesto it is obvious they have ever opened it. Isn't it more worthwhile to question Marx's historicizing, or to wonder why the female worker is conspicuously absent? Simply to call him the enemy of the good-ol-American-worker is puerile and ignorant. I wonder if even the best brain surgeons could dislodge the musty, creepy Cold War rhetoric from the minds of these critics. (Now I will be accused of advocating brainwashing.) As an unnecessary parting shot, I would ask these same critics to explain how Russia is better served by capitalism, or to account for the troubling aspects of Locke or Smith. (remember Locke's defense of slavery?) Check out Ehrenreich or Chomsky for more up-to-date socialism. Then buy this book to see how far socialism has come.
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Summary: Absolute Must Read
Review: The Communist Manifesto is a must read for all on both ends of the political spectrum. Whether you agree or disagree with Marx, you cannot deny his impact on civilization. The Manifesto contributed to the "Great Discussion" of who and what man is and the role of society ever bit as much as Locke, Smith or the Bible.
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Summary: It did present interesting thoughts
Review: I read this book in 7th grade and I fully understood it. It was not the best political book I have ever read. His ideas have been tried and they all failed. First of all, people will not willingly give up power like that. With this book being written in the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain, I can see his point, but his theory is only a theory. Overall, this was an ok book.
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Summary: I have never read this book
Review: I have never read this book, but am about to order it. The reason people shun communism is because they have been subjected by the media to the brute reality of it. A friend of mine once asked me which I truely hated, the ideals of communism or the reality of it. And this opened my mind up to enormous expansion. Communism need not be ruled under an "Iron Curtain." In fact, a communist status can be reached in the USA while still keeping the constitution intact. Anyone who rambles on about the horrors of communism is most likely rambling with an empty mind. The Soviet Union may have filled their people with propaganda, but anyone who can make a legitimate arguement that the USA hasn't done it's share of lying would be welcome to try and explain such a phenomenom.
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Summary: Am I the only socialist who thinks Marx was an idiot?
Review: Word for word (and this is a short book), the Communist manifesto is the most boring book in the history of Western literature. It pontificates; it extrapolates; it makes grand predictions; but first and foremost it is very poorly written, whatever language you read it in. For any fool who thinks Marx was some kind of prophetic genius and that all his predictions have come true, try Mayo's _Introduction to Marxist Theory_ (I don't know if it's still in print), where Marxism is systematically exposed as pseudoscientific mumbo jumbo, especially the stupidest of all metaphysics (next to Hegel, perhaps), dialectical materialism. For the Marxist, every event always proves the validity of Marxism, and failures like the Soviet Union are written off as not being "true socialism," which I do happen to agree with. I call myself a socialist, and happen, coincidentally, to be an atheist and materialist (but not of the superstitious, pseudoscientific "dialetical" kind), but I also think Marx was completely full of it. His version of Utopia has never once been effectively reached, however many times it's been tried, and has almost always turned into a horrible dictatorship. Marx's major predictions can never be proved wrong; after all, there's always more time in the future for the proles to rise against the bourgeios, and Marx never gave us a timetable. And so the joke continues...
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Summary: unreal
Review: Now see this book talks about the utopian society. And since the last time I checked. We were not living in a Utopian society. So mr Marx was wrong because this book doesn't take into account the feelings of man. Every person deep down inside wants Power. So you will always have the exploiter. And no offense but the exploited aren't smart enough to rebel and make everything equal.
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Summary: Marx was right on target about everything he said
Review: How can anyone actually disagree with what Marx said. Everything he said turned out to be correct. If you disagree with his ideas then you simply are not intelligent enough to understand what he said. Communism is TRUE democracy,not what the US is running. Those who disagree with communism are cleary not open minded.
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Summary: SPURNED BY IDIOTS
Review: I have to object to those of you who have given this book 1 star. Unless you have read this book (Most of you haven't anyway) and are reviewing it on writing quality then you are Capitalistic Bigots and have no idea what you are talking about. This book is moderatly well written but the content is unsurpassed. True it is Left-wing but it tells of how Marx portays Left Wing politics. A good read FOR BALANCED INDIVIDUALS (UNLIKE YOU LOT)!!!
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Summary: Workers of the world, destroy your nations!
Review: "The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions." (Karl Marx) -Great... Let's kill everybody... Then we can live in a great world! "Socialism was, on the continent at least, 'respectable'; Communism was the very opposite." (Frederick Engels: Co-Author of the Communist Manifesto) -I think one of Communism's biggest proponents just proved my point. "The bourgeoisie has played a most revolutionary role in history./The bourgeoisie, whenever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations." -Yes, humans tend to better themselves at the expense of others. I think we can pretty much agree that we won't ever accept that we are equal and have actual Communism until this changes. So much for Marx
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Summary: Foolish and unrealistic
Review: This book blueprints the most moronic political philosophy in world history which has proven itself time and time again to be murderous and completely unworkable. Marx proved almost prophetic in the first line of the book: "A spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of communism." Yes indeed. Communism is certainly a spectre, nothing more than a dead ghost backed up by the ghosts of the millions who died under the hateful regimes the rose in the name of this rotten little book.
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