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Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, "The Communist Manifesto" is a condensed and incisive account of the world view Marx and Engles developed during their hectic intellectual and political collaboration. Formulating the principles of dialectical materialism, they believed that labor creates wealth, hence capitalism is exploitive and antithetical to freedom.
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2010
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The Communist Manifesto is one of the world's most influential political documents. Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it presented the Communist League's program and purposes. It explained the goals of communism and the theory underlying the movement. Among other topics, this volume discusses and brings to life the reasons why the document was written, how it was received by the people for whom it was written, the effect it had on society...
3) Capital
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c1952
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Perhaps one of the most infamous works of the modern world, Capital is the German treatise on political economy by Karl Marx that critically analyzes capitalism. First published in 1867 as the beginning of an ambitious but unfinished six-volume series, this work extensively attempts to expose and explain the capitalist mode of production and the class struggles embedded within it. Capital was written while Marx was exiled in England, and many of the...
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[1999]
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"Does the closing of the cold war era open up the possibility of reading the Communist Manifesto in new ways? In this edition of Marx and Engels's classic text, Toews proposes new guidelines for reassessing the work to help students reconstruct the meaning of the Manifesto in its time and at the close of the twentieth century. Together with the complete text of the work, this brief volume includes some key foundational documents by Hegel, Marx, Engels,...
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