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O Manifesto Comunista de Marx e Engels
Em 1848, a Europa atravessava uma profunda convulsão social, marcada sobretudo pela eclosão de movimentos operários. Para orientar a ação dos trabalhadores, Karl Marx e Friedrich Engels elaboraram um documento que definia com clareza o comunismo. Surgia assim o "Manifesto comunista", que logo se tornou o panfleto mais lido na história. Versão integral do "Manifesto Comunista". Efeitos imediatos e de longo prazo sobre as lutas sociais da segunda metade do século XIX. O papel desempenhado nas grandes revoluções do século XX. Ricamente ilustrado com fotos, pinturas, desenhos e fac-símiles.
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182 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 15, 2010
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David Boyle
230 books54 followersDavid Courtney Boyle was a British author and journalist who wrote mainly about history and new ideas in economics, money, business, and culture. He lived in Steyning in West Sussex.
He conducted an independent review for the Treasury and the Cabinet Office on public demand for choice in public services which reported in 2013. Boyle was a co-founder and policy director of Radix, which he characterized in 2017 as a radical centrist think tank. He was also co-director of the mutual think tank New Weather Institute.
He conducted an independent review for the Treasury and the Cabinet Office on public demand for choice in public services which reported in 2013. Boyle was a co-founder and policy director of Radix, which he characterized in 2017 as a radical centrist think tank. He was also co-director of the mutual think tank New Weather Institute.
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April 10, 2019
Not just this document itself, in this book David Boyle also bookends the Manifesto with historical context and analysis of the world's most famous polemic.
Included are some little factoids that I am sure would delight Marxism's critics, namely his complete ineptitude in regards to money management. But fodder for simplistic anti-commie memes aside, Boyle does a great job painting the portrait of Marx as a person, while also fleshing out Engels as a force unto himself, rather than a sidekick, the position to which he is usually relegated. The history of revolution that Boyle covers, from the Bastille to the Cold War, is well known and taught in any school worth its salt, and though perhaps some of his analysis is questionable, he delivers his rundown smoothly and succinctly.
What is not taught in schools, and should be, is the content of the document itself. Of course as an overarching social philsophy, Marxism is flawed. Reducing all history to class struggle, and political philosophy to economics, is myopic. However, they are reductions that are absolutely necessary in understating history in a manner that can lead to a modern egalitarian society. Much of Marx's critiques continue to prove prophetic to this day. Our "grow or die" corporatism is very predictably unsustainable. Marx's model, which did not take into account environmental issues and treated the world as an infinite resource, is excusable due to historical ignorance. We no longer have that luxury.
It may not be the manual for revolution it once was, but it is still a useful stepping stone to meaningful change.
Included are some little factoids that I am sure would delight Marxism's critics, namely his complete ineptitude in regards to money management. But fodder for simplistic anti-commie memes aside, Boyle does a great job painting the portrait of Marx as a person, while also fleshing out Engels as a force unto himself, rather than a sidekick, the position to which he is usually relegated. The history of revolution that Boyle covers, from the Bastille to the Cold War, is well known and taught in any school worth its salt, and though perhaps some of his analysis is questionable, he delivers his rundown smoothly and succinctly.
What is not taught in schools, and should be, is the content of the document itself. Of course as an overarching social philsophy, Marxism is flawed. Reducing all history to class struggle, and political philosophy to economics, is myopic. However, they are reductions that are absolutely necessary in understating history in a manner that can lead to a modern egalitarian society. Much of Marx's critiques continue to prove prophetic to this day. Our "grow or die" corporatism is very predictably unsustainable. Marx's model, which did not take into account environmental issues and treated the world as an infinite resource, is excusable due to historical ignorance. We no longer have that luxury.
It may not be the manual for revolution it once was, but it is still a useful stepping stone to meaningful change.
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