A review by alikath
The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings by Karl Marx, Martin Puchner, Friedrich Engels

I'm not rating this because I don't want to but as a sociology and a political science major, I have read parts of this or the whole work enough times to appreciate the impact of this work. Marx and Engels writing in order to convince common people is so different from some of their other writings I have read of theirs when they are writing for other academics. Though we may view this work as hopelessly idyllic and impossible, I don't think you can over state the impact this work has had on many fields. Marx is considered one of the fathers of sociology and not because all sociologists are communists but rather because of his theories on class and alienation. Even though the society Marx and Engels propose here looks very different from out society today, there are still some changes that have been made to fit this vision in some countries, such as universal education in the U.S. I think there are lots of fair criticisms of this work (many later theorists have elaborated on or refuted this work) but I don't think the reputation this book has is always a fair one and I would encourage people to read it for themselves.