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The Communist Manifesto

By: Karl Marx,Friedrich Engels
Narrated by: Charles Armstrong,Roy McMillan
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Summary

Without question one of the most significant books in modern history, The Communist Manifesto is a brief, populist pamphlet that distils the core ideas of communism into accessible prose. Published just months before violent uprisings threatened to destabilize much of the European establishment, it outlines a view of history as a constant battle between the classes that will inevitably result in revolution. An angry call for a stateless world where the workers are no longer exploited, its depiction of the remorseless nature modern capitalism is as alarming and striking now as it was in 1848.

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complete drivel

so very hard to finish the manifesto has already become irrelevant in modern society removing freedom from the individual so that we can all be miserable.

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Required reading (listening)

If anyone wants to understand the horrors unleashed by communism in the last century, they could do worse than starting with the Communist Manifesto. Destruction of the family, destruction of national identity, destruction of religion, introduction of income tax, central banks controlled by the state. It’s all here, and it’s always ended in starvation and the death of hundreds of millions.

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Marx Engels are simply awesome

Loved this book and have listened to it a number of times completely timeless a must read to understand the world of today

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This book illuminates the mechanisms behind the genocidal Communist countries of the 20th Century. It's primary focus is towards hate of 'the other' and the destruction of Western democratic society and tradition.

It also helps us understand how this ideology has splintered into modern ideas such as Feminism, Political Correctness, Gender Ambiguity etc, or perhaps these ideas could even be part of a 5th column working today to undermine the stability of Western democratic societies.

The diametrically opposed 'Mein Kampf' should be your next stop to understand further how 'good intentions' can be turned into murderous actions.

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insightful

Absolutely brilliant and insightful. I am definitely going to listen to it again and again till it sinks in.

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One to be shared

A great peice of history and philosophy well read and at a perfect pace. This really makes you think and also educates throughout. I highly recommend this to anyone with a love of history or an interest in a less self-centred oppositional view to capitalism.

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A great insight

The first hour of the book is from The Communist Manifesto, the last 30 minutes are notes fra Karl Marx.

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Easier to follow than reading

My second rendezvous with the Communist manifesto. Retained more this time as an audiobook.
Well read by the narrator ✊🚩

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A Social Science Students Thesis

I can see why middle class (petite bourgeoisie) college and university students are attracted to this stuff. It sounds like it was written by one of them with no contemplation of human nature, social mobility and invention.

The bourgeoisie themselves sound like a great new world order conspiracy and it's almost as if Marx would harken a return to fuedalism. Marx sounds more like a MAGA insurrectionist than a socialist, which he also seems to deride (socialism) as part of a bourgeoisie mechanism to keep the classes in check.

There's also the contempt for "machinery". Who knew communists were such luddites? I wonder what Marx would make of a modern society do addicted to technological progress yet profess to be so in love with his ideals?

Very enlightening read. I look forward to learning more about communism and Marx from the sources because you certainly won't learn speaking to professed Marxists this day and age.

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