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The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings
Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, first printed just before the French revolution of 1848, is his most accessible and famous work. In his powerful call to arms, Marx expounds his famous theory that class struggle is the real determinant of historical change.
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 develop in Capital, his masterful, multi-volume analysis of how the world was irreversibly changed by the industrial revolution.
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. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.
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Published February 8, 2018
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Karl Marx
3,251 books6,542 followersWith the help of Friedrich Engels, German philosopher and revolutionary Karl Marx wrote
The Communist Manifesto
(1848) and
Das 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 on The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and on numerous other works.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin in London opposed Communism of Karl Marx with his antithetical anarchy.
Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, 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 with Bruno Bauer on editing Philosophy of Religion of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (see Democritus and Epicurus), 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, entitled Archiv des Atheismus (Atheistic Archives), which never came to fruition.
Marx edited the newspaper Vorwärts! 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 to C. Schmidt once quipped, "All I know is that I am not a Marxist," as Warren Allen Smith related in Who's Who in Hell .
People describe Marx, who most figured among humans. They typically cite Marx with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, the principal modern architects.
Bertrand Russell later 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_Marx
http://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...
German social theorist Friedrich Engels collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and on numerous other works.
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin in London opposed Communism of Karl Marx with his antithetical anarchy.
Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, 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 with Bruno Bauer on editing Philosophy of Religion of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (see Democritus and Epicurus), 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, entitled Archiv des Atheismus (Atheistic Archives), which never came to fruition.
Marx edited the newspaper Vorwärts! 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 to C. Schmidt once quipped, "All I know is that I am not a Marxist," as Warren Allen Smith related in Who's Who in Hell .
People describe Marx, who most figured among humans. They typically cite Marx with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, the principal modern architects.
Bertrand Russell later 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_Marx
http://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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January 25, 2021
Karl does not like the bourgeois.
March 12, 2022
I can't believe I read this in a week and a half.
I'll review each paper/book/essay seperately. There are three parts of the book. The communist manifesto (approx. 40 pages), Prices, Wages and Profit (approx. 100 pages) and Capital (approx 250 pages).
First off the Communist manifesto. By far my favorite since it's short and concise. It's on point and he makes some strong point which still to a very strong degree apply on us today. I'm not gonna get political about the content but more the writing. I liked that it was 40 pages and that he made an actual list of what a communist is and how their society and beliefs were. Interesting and sorta easy to read. I'd rate it 4 stars.
Next the brick known as Prices, Wages and Profits. WAYYY TO COMPLICATED. I don't study economy. I have almost close to zero knowledge about it. This part of the book was practically greek to me. Perhaps if I studied economy I would enjoy or just understand it better. But he did make a spoon joke and I live for that but at the same time I'm dying. This is a text that countries are built on, people of power through the ages have worshipped this man's writing and... He makes a spoon joke. In Capital he made a table joke but the spoon one was better. 1 stars.
CAPITAL. A.k.a the stuff of nightmares. The first half was supperrrr complicated but then it gets real intresting because he starts going into actual evidence of factories being dangerous and shows number and reports of other people. The descriptions are vivid and horrendous and that kinda was the highlight of the entire book (all three texts) because it was just so interesting learning about how it actually was. Also respect to Karl Marx for standing up for the poor labourers even if he was kinda a douche in real life acoording to the summary of his life in the beginning.
After he gets all historical he starts to describe capital again and I'm kinda not cool with that but respect to those who are, it just wasn't cool to me. Anyways this gets a 3 star.
Overall I'll round it off to three, but I'm pretty sure I've aged a decade reading this and wasted a week and a half of prime reading time that I'll never get back. Shout out to Karl Marx for being such a liar and scammer for writing this and making people believe in it. Honestly how are great civilisations built on this?
I'll review each paper/book/essay seperately. There are three parts of the book. The communist manifesto (approx. 40 pages), Prices, Wages and Profit (approx. 100 pages) and Capital (approx 250 pages).
First off the Communist manifesto. By far my favorite since it's short and concise. It's on point and he makes some strong point which still to a very strong degree apply on us today. I'm not gonna get political about the content but more the writing. I liked that it was 40 pages and that he made an actual list of what a communist is and how their society and beliefs were. Interesting and sorta easy to read. I'd rate it 4 stars.
Next the brick known as Prices, Wages and Profits. WAYYY TO COMPLICATED. I don't study economy. I have almost close to zero knowledge about it. This part of the book was practically greek to me. Perhaps if I studied economy I would enjoy or just understand it better. But he did make a spoon joke and I live for that but at the same time I'm dying. This is a text that countries are built on, people of power through the ages have worshipped this man's writing and... He makes a spoon joke. In Capital he made a table joke but the spoon one was better. 1 stars.
CAPITAL. A.k.a the stuff of nightmares. The first half was supperrrr complicated but then it gets real intresting because he starts going into actual evidence of factories being dangerous and shows number and reports of other people. The descriptions are vivid and horrendous and that kinda was the highlight of the entire book (all three texts) because it was just so interesting learning about how it actually was. Also respect to Karl Marx for standing up for the poor labourers even if he was kinda a douche in real life acoording to the summary of his life in the beginning.
After he gets all historical he starts to describe capital again and I'm kinda not cool with that but respect to those who are, it just wasn't cool to me. Anyways this gets a 3 star.
Overall I'll round it off to three, but I'm pretty sure I've aged a decade reading this and wasted a week and a half of prime reading time that I'll never get back. Shout out to Karl Marx for being such a liar and scammer for writing this and making people believe in it. Honestly how are great civilisations built on this?
February 1, 2021
Marx presenta una crítica acertada del capitalismo pero sus soluciones son demasiado radicales e incendiarias. Con cada página que pasaba la credibilidad de su discurso iba de bajada.
July 1, 2018
To start, many of the criticisms of capitalism and the world in general are spot on. However, it is all downhill from there. Marx's extreme view lose credibility quickly in my opinion. Full disclosure, I could only get through the Manifesto before getting over the rest.
I am sympathetic to the criticisms of capitalism but the solutions presented are even worse.
Maybe our tech friends have the solutions to the world's problems...
I am sympathetic to the criticisms of capitalism but the solutions presented are even worse.
Maybe our tech friends have the solutions to the world's problems...
February 13, 2023
li o manifesto, e os outros ensaios um pouco na diagonal
August 8, 2023
Marx and Engels woke up and decided to slay and never looked back ever since. Plus, the aesthetic of this book is just *chefs kiss*
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