If you'd like to learn about communism, start with the Communist Manifesto. The Manifesto remains an inspiration for revolutionary change because it is not just the musings of social reformers, philosophers or political wannabes. It is a working class guide for changing the world
What separated the Communist Manifesto from the dozens of programs and manifestos issued by other revolutionary groups of the day? Why are all those other programs forgotten today but the Manifesto is still widely read?
Marx and Engels incorporated the most advanced political, economic and philosophical thought of the time into scientific socialism: determining the laws by which society changed and then applying those laws to bring about socialism and, in due course, a communist society.
The importance of the Manifesto can hardly be overstated. It is not just a pamphlet, but the program of a revolutionary workers’ organization in the ongoing struggle against capitialism.
To this day, the Manifesto inspires revolutionaries the world over to struggle for the overthrow of the rule of capital. From Venezuela and across Latin America, with the red banner still raised high in Cuba, to Palestine and the Philippines, from the belly of U.S. imperialism,
The closing words of the Manifesto still ring clear:
“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”
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“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”
liberationschool.org/the-communist-…
