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Featuring an extensive, provocative introduction by historian Martin Malia, this authorized English translation of The Communist Manifesto, edited and annotated by Engels, with prefaces to editions published between 1872 and 1888, provides a new opportunity to examine the document that shook the world.
In 1848, two young men published what would become one of the defining documents of modern history, The Communist Manifesto. It rapidly realigned political faultlines all over the world and its aftershock resonates to this day. In the many years since its publication, no other social program has inspired such divisive and violent debate. Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world’s first regime to adopt the Manifesto’s tenets, historians have debated its intent and its impact. In the current era of market democracy in Russia and Eastern Europe, nationalism on every continent, and an ever tightening global economy, does the specter of Communism still haunt the world? Were the seeds of Communism’s ultimate destruction already planted in 1848? Is there anything to be learned from Marx’s envisioned utopia?
With an Introduction by Martin Malia
and an Afterword by Stephen Kotkin
About the Author
With the help ofFriedrich Engels, German philosopher and revolutionaryKarl MarxwroteThe Communist Manifesto(1848) andDas Kapital(1867-1894), works, which explain historical development in terms of the interaction of contradictory economic forces, form many regimes, and profoundly influenced the social sciences.German social theorist Friedrich Engels collaborated with Karl Marx onThe Communist Manifestoin 1848 and on numerous other works.Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtinin London opposed Communism of Karl Marx with his antithetical anarchy.Works ofJacques Martin BarzunincludeDarwin, Marx, Wagner(1941).The Prussian kingdom introduced a prohibition on Jews, practicing law; in response, a man converted to Protestantism and shortly afterward fathered Karl Marx.Marx began co-operating withBruno Baueron editingPhilosophy of ReligionofGeorg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel(seeDemocritusandEpicurus), doctoral thesis, also engaged Marx, who completed it in 1841. People described the controversial essay as "a daring and original piece... in which Marx set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom." Marx decided to submit his thesis not to the particularly conservative professors at the University of Berlin but instead to the more liberal faculty of University of Jena, which for his contributed key theory awarded his Philosophiae Doctor in April 1841. Marx and Bauer, both atheists, in March 1841 began plans for a journal, entitledArchiv des Atheismus(Atheistic Archives), which never came to fruition.Marx edited the newspaperVorwärts!in 1844 in Paris. The urging of the Prussian government from France banished and expelled Marx in absentia; he then studied in Brussels. He joined the league in 1847 and published.Marx participated the failure of 1848 and afterward eventually wound in London. Marx, a foreigner, corresponded for several publications of United States.He came in three volumes. Marx organized the International and the social democratic party.Marx in a letter toC. Schmidtonce quipped, "All I know is that I am not a Marxist," asWarren Allen Smithrelated inWho's Who in Hell.People describe Marx, who most figured among humans. They typically cite Marx withÉmile DurkheimandMax Weber, the principal modern architects.Bertrand Russelllater remarked of non-religious Marx, "His belief that there is a cosmic ... called dialectical materialism, which governs ... independently of human volitions, is mere mythology" (Portraits from Memory, 1956).More:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marxhttp://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bi...http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/...http://www.historyguide.org/intellect...http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic...http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/...http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t...
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