Maria’s Reviews > The Communist Manifesto > Status Update

Love to see

- women's place in society restored
- end of nepotism
- THE OWNING CLASS being called the lazy ones, if we usd their definition
- end of child labour
- education as a social right for all

There's still some xenophobia, but other things like abolition of capital and fam wealth which feels radical is easily explained why and how it'll be done or needs to.

READ THIS.

"Private property is already done away with for ninth-tenths of the population..."

"...when labour can no longer be converted into... bourgeois [owner class] property... you say individuality vanishes. You must, therefore, confess that by 'individual', you mean no other person than the bourgeois,"

Ya'll this man/men was spitting facts ~200 years ago, no wonder this still STANDS

"for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation"

...

"It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put it in the shade all former Exdoduses of nations and crusades" You can see how mad bro is, damn.
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globalisation rant is there but more in racist context

Amazing how relevant this can be - and I don't mean *reading* into this and interpreting a meaning, then comparing it to the present

I mean direct quotes!

Also this would probably be enriched by some knowledge of history, though Marx and Engels are nice enough to give a background anyway