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A review by proletecario
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
3.75
Started this one on Marx's birthday and then got distracted and completely forgot about it, sorry.
Had already read this in Spanish back in the day but since it came with the Little Black Classics Penguin boxset I thought I'd give the English version a read, too.
Gotta say, it is a text that reads stuck in its time and yet, holds up in itself to this day, as most can be applied almost two hundred years after it was written. Marx and Engels were visionaries that hit most of the nails in the head and no self proclaimed communist can go without admiring their minds and overlooking their genius. An absolute must read, of course; though I'll add that maybe not as much of an introductory text to communist literature as people seem to make it, there's other options I deem better for that like Engels's Principles of Communism.
Had already read this in Spanish back in the day but since it came with the Little Black Classics Penguin boxset I thought I'd give the English version a read, too.
Gotta say, it is a text that reads stuck in its time and yet, holds up in itself to this day, as most can be applied almost two hundred years after it was written. Marx and Engels were visionaries that hit most of the nails in the head and no self proclaimed communist can go without admiring their minds and overlooking their genius. An absolute must read, of course; though I'll add that maybe not as much of an introductory text to communist literature as people seem to make it, there's other options I deem better for that like Engels's Principles of Communism.