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So funny to see a review of this boxset pop up this morning, its been sat in my Amazon basket for a couple of days. Looking forwards to ordering it even more now :)
For me, it's a constant switch between believing in communism and supporting it, whilst failing to see it's ability to be implemented properly and successfully due to all the contradictions that this original manifesto describes (as you write above.)Great summary!
Amaani wrote: "For me, it's a constant switch between believing in communism and supporting it, whilst failing to see it's ability to be implemented properly and successfully due to all the contradictions that th..."
Thanks- it's a contorted issue ;)
Maeon wrote: "So funny to see a review of this boxset pop up this morning, its been sat in my Amazon basket for a couple of days. Looking forwards to ordering it even more now :)"
They are quite fun to read. I've almost read the lot now- this was my 63rd review for one of these! ;)
wow, how many books are there in total? great review, I like how you presented your arguments in a clear way.
"...the new rising class will destroy ownership; thus, the cycle has been broken: there will no longer be any class divisions."
Exactly, "Bookdragon Sean." "But what's left" is not a "power vacuum and a new means to create more wealth and ownership." No! Your consciousness--as they say in the literature--has been "contaminated" by bourgeois mentality, hence, is (presently) incapable of perceiving the world from a proletarian perspective which has (definitively) transcended "wealth and ownership" (i.e., "wealth and ownership" defined in bourgeois terms--ergo, proletarian consciousness is an advancement, a "higher consciousness").
A true proletarian consciousness, unfettered of bourgeois consciousness's necessary avarice and greed, understands the inherently malevolent nature of said bourgeois consciousness which, perforce, requires supercession to ensure the continuing/continual development of humankind (qua, species and subjectivity).
Lastly, under communism ("according to Marx"), there is not government! Id est, "In place of the old bourgeois society with its classes and class antagonisms we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all." The government will, of its own accord--once the proles have assumed control--"wither away," inasmuch as it itself proves a superfluous encumbrance--"a fetter," if you will--in the development/emancipation/actualisation of humankind.
Morgan wrote: "I didn't care for this book at all. I think I hated the writing most of all. How many time does one person need to say they hate the bourgeois? With this book over 30 times I think."
It's dull writing for sure. He's just trying to hammer home the same tired out point.
You know what doesn't work? Capitalism. Every year, 8 million people die from hunger, 8 million people die from contaminated water, 3 million people die from vaccine-preventable diseases and 500,000 people die from malaria. That is roughly 20 million deaths annually from capitalism. These people don't die because we are unable to treat them but because it is not profitable to do so.
John wrote: "You know what doesn't work? Capitalism. Every year, 8 million people die from hunger, 8 million people die from contaminated water, 3 million people die from vaccine-preventable diseases and 500,00..."
True enough
The problem with capitalism is growth and greed. The hunger and want for more. The false promises of being happier by buying the newer, upgraded phone, tablet, car or house. We need more socialism within our capitalism. A better sense of when to stop, find your happiness and then to help your fellow men and women.
Do u have to be a believer of communism to enjoy this? I think not, i totally disagree with the ideology but think it was brilliantly put together in its time and shaped history as we know it. I enjoyed reading it. You just have to approach it from a unbiased mind set.
You speak frequently of your disdain toward state capitalism, Sean. You need to go check that out a bit.
Could not agree more than it being a perfectly understandable and justifiable ideals which is why I had to give this book a 5 star because I understood Marx’ ideals.
Unfortunately we don’t live in an ideal world and human are ultimately greedy and selfish thus communism can never work for the greater good.
Hwee: Humans are malleable, and not "ultimately greedy and selfish...." Inasmuch as we humans are socialised today into a socio-economic paradigm that emphasises greed, of course we humans--being malleable--will develop greedy/selfish mentalities. Capitalism requires "have-nots," and--hence--a society of scarcity. Communism, wherein we--all human beings--live each according to our abilities and needs, will be one of abundance. That said, greed and selfishness will wither away (along with superfluous governmental apparatuses) with the supercession of capitalistically necessitated want, greed, and selfishness (of which we'll be free).
I read a book recently a gentleman in Moscow which I found to be absolutely brilliant as such I listened to a podcast about Karl Marx in which his communist manifesto was discussed. Sean I think makes a very cogent point that was echoed by the author Amor Towles who described communism as a hierarchy of hierarchies
you know until recently I was violently anti-communist, and I still have major problems with the post modern left. But the older I get the more I realize how evil and cruel unrestricted laizzes faire libertarian capitalism is. You get these free market fanatics/libertarians who put free enterprise above human life and to me that is just as evil as the worst excesses of Stalinism , Maoism and even Nazism. The fact is while it was an oppressive society there were definitely some good things about the old Soviet Union, the Soviet Union was the first country in world history to have completely eliminated hunger, an achievement that countries as "developed" as the United States have never reached. This shows the high efficiency that the socialist system reached at that time. In addition to eradicating hunger, the Soviet Union had been at the forefront of the global campaign for the eradication of smallpox and the establishment of networks of water, electricity, heating and transport almost free.
The Soviet Union was the first country to have an entirely literate population. The Soviet education system guaranteed public education, universal, free and compulsory collectivism.
The work done by the pioneers (Young Communists) was to bring people together in groups and to provide training collective (not individual) to that person who was behind in school. In addition, training plays an important role, that of forging a new man, with a socialist morality. The USSR was the first country to establish the University of evening allowing workers to study. It is not by chance that the Soviet Union was the country where were sold as many books in the world, exceeded that of all books sold in the country then.
The socialist system allowed to create a society of educated people, educated in the arts and sciences, aware of their importance as members of a society of interdependence. It is interesting to note that within the population, which had increased by 15 percent, the number of technicians has been multiplied by 55. Free sports were one of the pillars of child development. The interest in music was widespread, and almost the entire population could play an instrument. Children's education was entirely free of negative influences, and television showed only educational programs of all kinds and in all forms, including cartoons. It avoided programming topics mediocrity and is not intended to raise the general level, which brutalize people.
The socialist system also ensured public health, universal and free, ensuring that the life expectancy had reached the Soviet one of the highest levels in the world. The USSR was the first country where women were not only entitled to a free labor but also a painless childbirth. The first organ transplants were also developed by the glorious Soviet scientists. Under Stalin, for the first time in history, the woman had obtained the same rights as men, including access to education, employment, political participation, as well as pay equity, which still does not exist in the capitalist countries. Soviet physicians have developed treatments based bacteriophage viruses against infectious diseases. Bacteria kill humans, but bacteriophages destroy bacteria. Today, bacteriophages can be the solution to the growing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. so you see there are two sides to the story.
Gary... Are you insane?
Russia eradicated hunger?
Was that before or after millions of them STARVED TO DEATH?
You’re probably joking and I’m the idiot that took you serious, I don’t know.
The thing isn't that communism works at this point there is no reason to say to read this books and ask if you agree, rather you should make the review higher not because "communism works" but because it is and intresting view on social structure. Cappitalism is just as bad in its own ways it just didn't fail as fast. This should be a book read not for persuasion but as a way to understand a perspective and help learn about things in a non capitalist anti communist way.
I agree that Communism is an ideology that is not only hypocritical within itself but has been proven to not work. However the book is written brilliantly and on paper it sounds like an ideology that I during Marx’s time period would have considered it even believed. Although the book being about an ideology that promotes war and completely disregards human psychology, this book is a must read for those not only in political science but to better understand history during this time period and why events played out the way it did.
Ayla wrote: "I agree that Communism is an ideology that is not only hypocritical within itself but has been proven to not work. However the book is written brilliantly and on paper it sounds like an ideology th..."
I agree totally. As a historical document, this is indeed something we should all study and be aware of.
I liked your review because you engaged with the book. Seems like you’re engaging with a lot of classics actually!
Really good and well thought out review!
I love that you tried to be unbiased by your own political views when reading the manifesto.
I disagree with what you said, but that is unavoidable and okay.
I have so much respect for people that consciously diversifies their reading. Trapping oneself in a cheese dome of opinions similar to one’s own is, at least in my opinion, ignorant.
Ironically, Sean writes of the "Communist Manifesto" as a "historical document." "Ironic," inasmuch as (and as Marx cogently noted) humanity--as a species and as singularities--has not as yet even attained to history, per se! Specifically, insofar as capitalism is a de facto slave system (i.e., wage-slave system), we are all of us blocked from inherently necessary growth and development. Or, in other words, until we are free from capitalist stultification--hence, free to develop our innate human powers freely--we are precluded from the/an advent of history which will, and can only, commence when our collective actualisational possibilities are unfettered.
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capitalism is working so well that it's plummeting us into a climate crisis that will potentially make earth uninhabitable. at least it makes numbers go up though!
The responses to your review have, in their own way, been just as enlightening.
Criticising the status quo is well and good, but it isn't an argument for one particular kind of revolutionary change - it's amazing how many people don't seem to understand that.
Hey Sean, I've bought this boxset too. Some cool little books in here.
I also think the same about communism. I've recently read '12 rules to life' by Jordan Peterson and his oponion is that life and people are too complicated to fit in any simplification. There are too many things to consider, and people differ too much to just let them all be or do the same. Everybody adds another value to the marketplace, and does that out of free will. That's the great about our modern society (altough it's far from perfect). I'm very happy to live in this age, where I see chances everywhere. Where I can think and say what I want and don't have to be the same as everybody else.
Anyway, thanks for your review. It's always interesting to read your thoughts about books.
Great book it reminds me of how communism works.
Imagine reading a pamphlet and thinking that it needs to have clear theory. The manifesto only has 40 pages and explains very briefly what communism is in the eyes of Marx. It even has a little paragraph explaining that many of the views of the authors have changed in many instances. They are corrected in Das Kapital, The state and the revolution, Utopian and scientific socialism etc that explain very well Phillosophical and economical communism. Left anticommunism The unkidest Cut explains very well the anticommunist sentiment in our current society and the delusions of pro capitalists. You clearly don't know enough about the subject if this is what you got out of the book. But it has been 4 years since you read it so who knows.
I get disagreement and there are even valid points in there, but the political and philosophical interpretation / conclusion is downright putrid
Yeah I agree wholeheartedly with this review. I read this pamphlet & promptly realised why Stalinism & Maoism were such huge disasters. Marx lacked the understanding of human nature required to propose this kind of societal reform. He honestly thought that post revolution, the proletariat would just throw away their own individual cultural prejudices, religious biases & proclivity for corruption/cruelty, pick up their tools & all fall in line ‘for the greater good’.
Sorry, no! That’s the way a child thinks; “And they all lived happily ever after….”
In reality, an egalitarian communist utopia was about as likely as Bush & Blair’s ‘war on terror’ not being about seizing control of oil. The fact that millions have died of starvation & brutality in every incarnation of the Marxist political experiment should be enough to tell us ‘working class heroes’ that we need more carefully constructed ideas. I myself sit somewhere between capitalism & socialism in that I think both have their virtues & sins. Socialism cannot exist without capitalism, & capitalism is preferable to feudalism. Marx wasn’t just batty, he was a hypocrite who was against inheritance (whilst being happy to claim his own) & spent his existence mooching off of others, ranting about manual labour from his fucking armchair.
“What kind of political party overtly advocates war” ????? hahahahaha let me think
Extremely based review. This is pretty much how I feel
Communism is basically a front for a dictatorship and ruling class. Always has been.
maybe you should read it again seeing your ridiculous overconsumption of penguin books just because they’re pretty
marx addressed your arguments in the manifesto, and the ones that weren't addressed were discussed in other communist texts (to each according to his ability, to each according to his needs wipes out fighting for resources pretty fast)
certainly warrants a re-read with a guide. this review is based on no understanding of the text read
Communism does work aswell as capitalism and feudalism does/did
Communism only doesn't work cos every time we've tried to install it the CIA have staged a coup
I agree with Celestial. I think the review read the manifesto with a predetermined perspective that remain unchanged (as stated).
Regarding parties that advocate for war? You’re kidding right? Look around in the US as of late?
This review is filled with red scare propaganda. A typical refusal to acknowledge that violence can be necessary in the face of violent oppression, an uneducated dismissal of the good communism/socialism has done, and a complete lack of regard for the context and conditions of failed socialist/communist societies.
The manifesto is not meant to answer all questions but to pique the interest of a reader to want to understand more. The purpose is to move forward and to deep dive into the topic matter.
If this particular reviewer is interested in knowing more with a fair perspective, I would highly recommend blackshirts and reds, and to start really diving into international imperialism and all of the horrors the world superpowers are allowed to commit in the name of their economic systems survival.
and capitalism always only worked for a minority of people, i prefer to believe in an ideal than in a shit system like the one were in right now. karl marx brought hope to people who were invisible and only valuable in terms of instruments. maybe some of karl marx methods to achieve the communist system were flawed but the core values were and are still good.
Stalin was NOTTT a marxist, its so sad people came to associate stalin with communism because he was first and foremost a fascist. he poorly represented what communism was supposed to be, karl marx wouldve never agreed with his way of ruling.
Totally agree with you. Communism never worked and never will.
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For me, it's a constant switch between believing in communism and supporting it, whilst failing to see it's ability to be implemented properly and successfully due to all the contradictions that this original manifesto describes (as you write above.)Great summary!
Amaani wrote: "For me, it's a constant switch between believing in communism and supporting it, whilst failing to see it's ability to be implemented properly and successfully due to all the contradictions that th..."Thanks- it's a contorted issue ;)
Maeon wrote: "So funny to see a review of this boxset pop up this morning, its been sat in my Amazon basket for a couple of days. Looking forwards to ordering it even more now :)"They are quite fun to read. I've almost read the lot now- this was my 63rd review for one of these! ;)
wow, how many books are there in total? great review, I like how you presented your arguments in a clear way.
"...the new rising class will destroy ownership; thus, the cycle has been broken: there will no longer be any class divisions."Exactly, "Bookdragon Sean." "But what's left" is not a "power vacuum and a new means to create more wealth and ownership." No! Your consciousness--as they say in the literature--has been "contaminated" by bourgeois mentality, hence, is (presently) incapable of perceiving the world from a proletarian perspective which has (definitively) transcended "wealth and ownership" (i.e., "wealth and ownership" defined in bourgeois terms--ergo, proletarian consciousness is an advancement, a "higher consciousness").
A true proletarian consciousness, unfettered of bourgeois consciousness's necessary avarice and greed, understands the inherently malevolent nature of said bourgeois consciousness which, perforce, requires supercession to ensure the continuing/continual development of humankind (qua, species and subjectivity).
Lastly, under communism ("according to Marx"), there is not government! Id est, "In place of the old bourgeois society with its classes and class antagonisms we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all." The government will, of its own accord--once the proles have assumed control--"wither away," inasmuch as it itself proves a superfluous encumbrance--"a fetter," if you will--in the development/emancipation/actualisation of humankind.
I didn't care for this book at all. I think I hated the writing most of all. How many time does one person need to say they hate the bourgeois? With this book over 30 times I think.
Morgan wrote: "I didn't care for this book at all. I think I hated the writing most of all. How many time does one person need to say they hate the bourgeois? With this book over 30 times I think."It's dull writing for sure. He's just trying to hammer home the same tired out point.
You know what doesn't work? Capitalism. Every year, 8 million people die from hunger, 8 million people die from contaminated water, 3 million people die from vaccine-preventable diseases and 500,000 people die from malaria. That is roughly 20 million deaths annually from capitalism. These people don't die because we are unable to treat them but because it is not profitable to do so.
John wrote: "You know what doesn't work? Capitalism. Every year, 8 million people die from hunger, 8 million people die from contaminated water, 3 million people die from vaccine-preventable diseases and 500,00..."True enough
The problem with capitalism is growth and greed. The hunger and want for more. The false promises of being happier by buying the newer, upgraded phone, tablet, car or house. We need more socialism within our capitalism. A better sense of when to stop, find your happiness and then to help your fellow men and women.
Do u have to be a believer of communism to enjoy this? I think not, i totally disagree with the ideology but think it was brilliantly put together in its time and shaped history as we know it. I enjoyed reading it. You just have to approach it from a unbiased mind set.
You speak frequently of your disdain toward state capitalism, Sean. You need to go check that out a bit.
Could not agree more than it being a perfectly understandable and justifiable ideals which is why I had to give this book a 5 star because I understood Marx’ ideals. Unfortunately we don’t live in an ideal world and human are ultimately greedy and selfish thus communism can never work for the greater good.
Hwee: Humans are malleable, and not "ultimately greedy and selfish...." Inasmuch as we humans are socialised today into a socio-economic paradigm that emphasises greed, of course we humans--being malleable--will develop greedy/selfish mentalities. Capitalism requires "have-nots," and--hence--a society of scarcity. Communism, wherein we--all human beings--live each according to our abilities and needs, will be one of abundance. That said, greed and selfishness will wither away (along with superfluous governmental apparatuses) with the supercession of capitalistically necessitated want, greed, and selfishness (of which we'll be free).
I read a book recently a gentleman in Moscow which I found to be absolutely brilliant as such I listened to a podcast about Karl Marx in which his communist manifesto was discussed. Sean I think makes a very cogent point that was echoed by the author Amor Towles who described communism as a hierarchy of hierarchies
you know until recently I was violently anti-communist, and I still have major problems with the post modern left. But the older I get the more I realize how evil and cruel unrestricted laizzes faire libertarian capitalism is. You get these free market fanatics/libertarians who put free enterprise above human life and to me that is just as evil as the worst excesses of Stalinism , Maoism and even Nazism. The fact is while it was an oppressive society there were definitely some good things about the old Soviet Union, the Soviet Union was the first country in world history to have completely eliminated hunger, an achievement that countries as "developed" as the United States have never reached. This shows the high efficiency that the socialist system reached at that time. In addition to eradicating hunger, the Soviet Union had been at the forefront of the global campaign for the eradication of smallpox and the establishment of networks of water, electricity, heating and transport almost free.The Soviet Union was the first country to have an entirely literate population. The Soviet education system guaranteed public education, universal, free and compulsory collectivism.
The work done by the pioneers (Young Communists) was to bring people together in groups and to provide training collective (not individual) to that person who was behind in school. In addition, training plays an important role, that of forging a new man, with a socialist morality. The USSR was the first country to establish the University of evening allowing workers to study. It is not by chance that the Soviet Union was the country where were sold as many books in the world, exceeded that of all books sold in the country then.
The socialist system allowed to create a society of educated people, educated in the arts and sciences, aware of their importance as members of a society of interdependence. It is interesting to note that within the population, which had increased by 15 percent, the number of technicians has been multiplied by 55. Free sports were one of the pillars of child development. The interest in music was widespread, and almost the entire population could play an instrument. Children's education was entirely free of negative influences, and television showed only educational programs of all kinds and in all forms, including cartoons. It avoided programming topics mediocrity and is not intended to raise the general level, which brutalize people.
The socialist system also ensured public health, universal and free, ensuring that the life expectancy had reached the Soviet one of the highest levels in the world. The USSR was the first country where women were not only entitled to a free labor but also a painless childbirth. The first organ transplants were also developed by the glorious Soviet scientists. Under Stalin, for the first time in history, the woman had obtained the same rights as men, including access to education, employment, political participation, as well as pay equity, which still does not exist in the capitalist countries. Soviet physicians have developed treatments based bacteriophage viruses against infectious diseases. Bacteria kill humans, but bacteriophages destroy bacteria. Today, bacteriophages can be the solution to the growing resistance of bacteria to antibiotics. so you see there are two sides to the story.
Gary... Are you insane? Russia eradicated hunger?
Was that before or after millions of them STARVED TO DEATH?
You’re probably joking and I’m the idiot that took you serious, I don’t know.
The thing isn't that communism works at this point there is no reason to say to read this books and ask if you agree, rather you should make the review higher not because "communism works" but because it is and intresting view on social structure. Cappitalism is just as bad in its own ways it just didn't fail as fast. This should be a book read not for persuasion but as a way to understand a perspective and help learn about things in a non capitalist anti communist way.
I agree that Communism is an ideology that is not only hypocritical within itself but has been proven to not work. However the book is written brilliantly and on paper it sounds like an ideology that I during Marx’s time period would have considered it even believed. Although the book being about an ideology that promotes war and completely disregards human psychology, this book is a must read for those not only in political science but to better understand history during this time period and why events played out the way it did.
Ayla wrote: "I agree that Communism is an ideology that is not only hypocritical within itself but has been proven to not work. However the book is written brilliantly and on paper it sounds like an ideology th..."I agree totally. As a historical document, this is indeed something we should all study and be aware of.
I liked your review because you engaged with the book. Seems like you’re engaging with a lot of classics actually!
Really good and well thought out review! I love that you tried to be unbiased by your own political views when reading the manifesto.
I disagree with what you said, but that is unavoidable and okay.
I have so much respect for people that consciously diversifies their reading. Trapping oneself in a cheese dome of opinions similar to one’s own is, at least in my opinion, ignorant.
Ironically, Sean writes of the "Communist Manifesto" as a "historical document." "Ironic," inasmuch as (and as Marx cogently noted) humanity--as a species and as singularities--has not as yet even attained to history, per se! Specifically, insofar as capitalism is a de facto slave system (i.e., wage-slave system), we are all of us blocked from inherently necessary growth and development. Or, in other words, until we are free from capitalist stultification--hence, free to develop our innate human powers freely--we are precluded from the/an advent of history which will, and can only, commence when our collective actualisational possibilities are unfettered.
capitalism is working so well that it's plummeting us into a climate crisis that will potentially make earth uninhabitable. at least it makes numbers go up though!
The responses to your review have, in their own way, been just as enlightening. Criticising the status quo is well and good, but it isn't an argument for one particular kind of revolutionary change - it's amazing how many people don't seem to understand that.
Hey Sean, I've bought this boxset too. Some cool little books in here.I also think the same about communism. I've recently read '12 rules to life' by Jordan Peterson and his oponion is that life and people are too complicated to fit in any simplification. There are too many things to consider, and people differ too much to just let them all be or do the same. Everybody adds another value to the marketplace, and does that out of free will. That's the great about our modern society (altough it's far from perfect). I'm very happy to live in this age, where I see chances everywhere. Where I can think and say what I want and don't have to be the same as everybody else.
Anyway, thanks for your review. It's always interesting to read your thoughts about books.
Great book it reminds me of how communism works.
Imagine reading a pamphlet and thinking that it needs to have clear theory. The manifesto only has 40 pages and explains very briefly what communism is in the eyes of Marx. It even has a little paragraph explaining that many of the views of the authors have changed in many instances. They are corrected in Das Kapital, The state and the revolution, Utopian and scientific socialism etc that explain very well Phillosophical and economical communism. Left anticommunism The unkidest Cut explains very well the anticommunist sentiment in our current society and the delusions of pro capitalists. You clearly don't know enough about the subject if this is what you got out of the book. But it has been 4 years since you read it so who knows.
I get disagreement and there are even valid points in there, but the political and philosophical interpretation / conclusion is downright putrid
Yeah I agree wholeheartedly with this review. I read this pamphlet & promptly realised why Stalinism & Maoism were such huge disasters. Marx lacked the understanding of human nature required to propose this kind of societal reform. He honestly thought that post revolution, the proletariat would just throw away their own individual cultural prejudices, religious biases & proclivity for corruption/cruelty, pick up their tools & all fall in line ‘for the greater good’. Sorry, no! That’s the way a child thinks; “And they all lived happily ever after….”
In reality, an egalitarian communist utopia was about as likely as Bush & Blair’s ‘war on terror’ not being about seizing control of oil. The fact that millions have died of starvation & brutality in every incarnation of the Marxist political experiment should be enough to tell us ‘working class heroes’ that we need more carefully constructed ideas. I myself sit somewhere between capitalism & socialism in that I think both have their virtues & sins. Socialism cannot exist without capitalism, & capitalism is preferable to feudalism. Marx wasn’t just batty, he was a hypocrite who was against inheritance (whilst being happy to claim his own) & spent his existence mooching off of others, ranting about manual labour from his fucking armchair.
“What kind of political party overtly advocates war” ????? hahahahaha let me think
Extremely based review. This is pretty much how I feel
Communism is basically a front for a dictatorship and ruling class. Always has been.
maybe you should read it again seeing your ridiculous overconsumption of penguin books just because they’re pretty
marx addressed your arguments in the manifesto, and the ones that weren't addressed were discussed in other communist texts (to each according to his ability, to each according to his needs wipes out fighting for resources pretty fast)certainly warrants a re-read with a guide. this review is based on no understanding of the text read
Communism does work aswell as capitalism and feudalism does/did
Communism only doesn't work cos every time we've tried to install it the CIA have staged a coup
I agree with Celestial. I think the review read the manifesto with a predetermined perspective that remain unchanged (as stated). Regarding parties that advocate for war? You’re kidding right? Look around in the US as of late?
This review is filled with red scare propaganda. A typical refusal to acknowledge that violence can be necessary in the face of violent oppression, an uneducated dismissal of the good communism/socialism has done, and a complete lack of regard for the context and conditions of failed socialist/communist societies. The manifesto is not meant to answer all questions but to pique the interest of a reader to want to understand more. The purpose is to move forward and to deep dive into the topic matter.
If this particular reviewer is interested in knowing more with a fair perspective, I would highly recommend blackshirts and reds, and to start really diving into international imperialism and all of the horrors the world superpowers are allowed to commit in the name of their economic systems survival.
and capitalism always only worked for a minority of people, i prefer to believe in an ideal than in a shit system like the one were in right now. karl marx brought hope to people who were invisible and only valuable in terms of instruments. maybe some of karl marx methods to achieve the communist system were flawed but the core values were and are still good.
Stalin was NOTTT a marxist, its so sad people came to associate stalin with communism because he was first and foremost a fascist. he poorly represented what communism was supposed to be, karl marx wouldve never agreed with his way of ruling.
Totally agree with you. Communism never worked and never will.
