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Very difficult to get into and difficult to read. Enjoyable!
Basically, communism is a philosophy!
Basically, communism is a philosophy!
The revolution will be televised, but there will be unskippable ads on a streaming service you already pay for, and your DoorDash order will always cost $14 more than it would in the restaurant because of “service fees,” but then when your order is wrong—and it will be wrong—you will never receive a refund, and you will wonder what the “service” is that you paid for because you know that money didn’t go to the stoned college kid puttering around on a Bird scooter with a bag of burritos, and also AirBnBs will be a total nightmare because none of this is as decentralized as it claims to be.
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the communist manifesto 🤷♀️
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Camaradas, in general as críticas apresentadas são boas, however muitas das soluções que são oferecidas não são tão boas. Não acredito que seja necessário começar uma revolução para resolver problemas, a própria revolução vai trazer as suas. As soluções são ainda baseadas em abolição, o que é uma não solução.
A escrita é razoável.
A escrita é razoável.
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First of all, it's fortunate I never tried this text itself before/during schooling touching occasionally and gently on "Marxism" mis-apprehended by a bunch of capitalists. I'd be even more confused than I am right now, and I'm pretty confused in general, because I'm naturally kind of an idiot and also because the Manifesto's written to be naturally provocative, because it builds on a whole bunch of European and world history I have only the vaguest/flimsiest familiarity with, and because it's written by committee in this very impersonal, abstract, odd way I didn't think texts were written in! I think it's pretty vital, though, nevertheless!
Actually, I think I've read, though, Engels's Socialism: Utopian and Scientific, but it was a long time ago. And Chomsky's 9/11 too; but that's modern and, thus, not timeless.
Hold up, though. Are you 'Communist', though? Are you subscribed completely to this Manifesto? Or just pawing idly at it in distraction, curiosity, firm Capitalism at heart but a thin, superficial Communism on your surface sometimes? There should be a pg 1 'Communism? -Yes -No Yes? Well, in that case, read on' and then begin the book proper. All books should do that, I think. Even novels. Even romance novels.
"The bourgeoisie has disclosed that" is a weird way to start a sentence, however valuable may be the historical nuance following. A lot of the points -- maybe with the exception of the very basic "The discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie" -- strikes me like that, valuable and powerful nuance phrased in such an off-kilter way that I am not really able to absorb it at all.
I want us to be conscious of 'care economy' and 'social fabric' dismissals, but I am afraid here only the barest glimpses of 'wife and children' this Manifesto affords us. Like, "the proletarian is without property; his relation to his wife and children has no longer anything in common with the bourgeois family-relations… Law, morality, religion, or to him so many bourgeois prejudices, behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests."
"The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property." I do not think that is a sentence, but ok. "The charges against communism made from a religious, a philosophical, and, generally, from an ideological standpoint, are not deserving of serious examination. Does it require deep intuition to comprehend that man's ideas, views and conceptions, in one word, man's consciousness, changes with every change in the conditions of his material existence, in his social relations and in his social life?" Well, honestly, hold up, hold up, yes.
"The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win"! You want to win a world? For 175 years or so they been trying to win a world -- Broken Blossoms (1919), Welcome Danger (1929), King Kong (1933), Pinocchio (1940), Lusty Men (1952), Viva Maria! (1965), One sings, the other doesn't (1977), Speed Racer (2008), etc. -- and I been like 'Wait wait, 'win'? Sorry, thought you said 'winch', so I was stuck on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), trying to figure out the relevance there, trying to learn auto mechanics intricacies, so sorry.