Hardcover, 131 pages
German language
Published Sept. 14, 2009 by Nikol Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG.
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License: www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/marx-engels/1848/manifest
Das Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei wurde von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels 1847 im Auftrag des Bundes der Kommunisten verfasst und ist im Februar 1848 in London erschienen.
Dass ein Aufsatz die geistige und politische Welt grundlegend verändern kann, wird bei keinem Text so augenscheinlich wie bei diesem. Er ist Grundlage und Ausgangspunkt ökonomischer Systeme, politischer Konflikte und nicht zuletzt einer Vielzahl von Missverständnissen, die bis heute das politische Bewusstsein prägen.
Das Werk, in dem Marx und Engels bereits große Teile der später als »Marxismus« bezeichneten Weltanschauung entwickeln, beginnt mit dem heute geflügelten Wort: »Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa – das Gespenst des Kommunismus« und endet mit dem bekannten Aufruf: »Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!«.
Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License: www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/marx-engels/1848/manifest
Das Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei wurde von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels 1847 im Auftrag des Bundes der Kommunisten verfasst und ist im Februar 1848 in London erschienen.
Dass ein Aufsatz die geistige und politische Welt grundlegend verändern kann, wird bei keinem Text so augenscheinlich wie bei diesem. Er ist Grundlage und Ausgangspunkt ökonomischer Systeme, politischer Konflikte und nicht zuletzt einer Vielzahl von Missverständnissen, die bis heute das politische Bewusstsein prägen.
Das Werk, in dem Marx und Engels bereits große Teile der später als »Marxismus« bezeichneten Weltanschauung entwickeln, beginnt mit dem heute geflügelten Wort: »Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa – das Gespenst des Kommunismus« und endet mit dem bekannten Aufruf: »Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch!«.
Ca fait longtemps que je l'ai lu, et à l'époque je m'étais dit qu'il fallais le remettre a jour car peu représentatif du monde actuel avec cette classe moyenne apathique. Mais les IA vont voler les jobs de cette classe moyenne donc c'est bon dans 20 ans ça sera de nouveau d'actualité
I think it's pretty good. It's pretty polemical and lays out the political goals of communists, it doesn't really get into Marxist philosophy and the methods in which Marx comes to his conclusions though. I'd probably recommend "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" as a better introduction to Marxism.
The manifesto is mostly just interesting as a historical piece for me, especially in terms of leftist history. Ideologically it's still pretty interesting to read, however some parts of it have naturally become a bit outdated which has even been acknowledged by Marx and Engels some 25 years later.
The edition of the manifesto I read even includes multiple prefaces by Engels throughout the years which further gave an amazing insight into history and what they felt and thought at the time. Additionally the book also included Engel's The Principles of Communism which practically functioned as an FAQ to fully illustrate what exactly Communism is and it stands for.
3.6 stars. If this were written today, people would demand research, stats, and data to support its conclusions. There were a lot of declarations where Marx and Engels just said things. “The proletariat is this,” and “The bourgeois thinks that” type of phrasing.
There also oddly seemed like there were unfinished thoughts. For example, free education and the abolishment of child labor is advocated for, and the paragraph where this is discussed ends with “etc, etc.” Really Marx? “etc, etc?” I can see Lenin now, channeling his inner Marx — “We’re going give power to the worker, and like, whatever.”
It also decried prison reform, humanitarianism, and the prevention of the cruelty to animals as “conservative bourgeois socialism.” That seems a bit cynical to me. The manifesto seems to be implying that these issues would just go away without the bourgeois, and that a society where workers are in control …
3.6 stars. If this were written today, people would demand research, stats, and data to support its conclusions. There were a lot of declarations where Marx and Engels just said things. “The proletariat is this,” and “The bourgeois thinks that” type of phrasing.
There also oddly seemed like there were unfinished thoughts. For example, free education and the abolishment of child labor is advocated for, and the paragraph where this is discussed ends with “etc, etc.” Really Marx? “etc, etc?” I can see Lenin now, channeling his inner Marx — “We’re going give power to the worker, and like, whatever.”
It also decried prison reform, humanitarianism, and the prevention of the cruelty to animals as “conservative bourgeois socialism.” That seems a bit cynical to me. The manifesto seems to be implying that these issues would just go away without the bourgeois, and that a society where workers are in control would be benevolent for some unknown and unexplained reason.
I do like the idea of workers of the world uniting though. Collectively owned businesses. Big thumbs up. Keeping one’s share of the means of production. Also great. But like all old political and economic texts, we give too much credit to its creators. Marx was just a man. People do the same thing with the U.S. Constitution too; they think it’s flawless.
