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stevia333k's review against another edition
fast-paced
I'm a USAmerican
It centers Europeans and Roman slavery instead of chattel slavery. Maybe i just need to read a translation or something
That being said it's in listicle format, so it's a good read if you can get over some of that sort of shit. / Meanwhile I'm reading "slavery and social death" by Orlando Patterson to get knowledge of how chattle slavery is a subtype
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That being said when ML's say that ML is a science, they mean the science is used to update this book. So yeah, it was interesting to see what the ground base for Marxism is since I've been studying socialism for several years & yet hadn't read this yet. That being said, it would be nice to see like a scientific update of this book, such as for the eurocentrism of the term "slavery" & how revolution is now believed to take place in the peripheries instead of the imperial core.
It centers Europeans and Roman slavery instead of chattel slavery. Maybe i just need to read a translation or something
That being said it's in listicle format, so it's a good read if you can get over some of that sort of shit. / Meanwhile I'm reading "slavery and social death" by Orlando Patterson to get knowledge of how chattle slavery is a subtype
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That being said when ML's say that ML is a science, they mean the science is used to update this book. So yeah, it was interesting to see what the ground base for Marxism is since I've been studying socialism for several years & yet hadn't read this yet. That being said, it would be nice to see like a scientific update of this book, such as for the eurocentrism of the term "slavery" & how revolution is now believed to take place in the peripheries instead of the imperial core.
katelynashford's review against another edition
this absolutely shouldn't be taken to be entirely representative of the current communist movement (like Engels claiming revolution needing to first happen in 'developed countries' like America and Britain before developing countries, which just hasn't been how revolutions have played out in the past century and a half). But still worth reading!
ggross's review against another edition
5.0
This is better, clearer introduction to communism than the communist manifesto. I think some of engels points are outdated or wrong as we have learned a lot over the last 100 plus years since this was written and the material conditions are very different now. Still, many of engels principles of communism are very applicable to today and this is a great intro text to communism
the_weirdling's review against another edition
4.0
This reads like the first ever FAQ on Communism, and in a way, that’s exactly what this is. For what it’s worth, I think this is actually a better introduction to Communism than the Communist Manifesto. I find Engles was often a better, clearer writer than his bestie, Karl.