The Communist Manifesto: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Just to view the opposite side of the spectrum of Atlas Shrugged I indulged in this cheap piece of fluff. The first third of the book basically tried to describe the great parts of capitalism as bad parts. It didn't work very well. There wasn't any real content in the entire book - basically the workers of the world deserve all of the money since they do all of the work but aren't smart enough to be the upper class or realizing the catch-22 that if they do get all of the money they become the upper class. All in all, a quick read from the perspective of the whiners of the world. Not quite socialism, but close enough. The looters of the world still riding the coattails of those who do it better.

As the world continues to crumble and burn around us, as capitalism folds itself into fascism to preserve its power we can only now see that this was always going to be the inevitable conclusion of an economic system built to reward greed, manufactured scarcity, and war. While we all choke on rivers of ash, leaded water, and struggle to pay our rents, billionaires are flying to space and buying islands. Good job america.

The original reason I bought this book was to use it with my Fidel Castro costume this past Halloween. But so many of my coworkers asked to borrow it to read it that I decided to hold off in burning it and read it to at least get to know a little deeper the enemy. I will probably lent it to several of my coworkers do. But other than that don't waste your time with this crap. The book was in nice and pristine conditions and it was a little bigger than I expected. I was thinking it was going to be the size of Mao's Little Red Book.

A great look into the birth of communism and communism as whole whole within the romantic period. Many of this books ideas are still applicable and important in today's society, especially, modern-day capitalist America. My only issue is with the quality of my copy, the pages were cut very roughly and they were closer to torn rather than actually cut

Very Informative

If you want to know how the Communist Party acheives "political supremacy", to "win the battle of democracy" & "changes" America from a free market capitalist country to a Communist country, reading this book (their basic plan) is a good start. Note the candidates that are working to acheive this agenda & vote accordingly. Here's a couple clues---They rarely call themselves "communists" and they're very deceptive.

What can I say? It's the Communist Manifesto. It's one of the greatest books ever written and I don't agree with any bit of it.The book was brand new. Great condition. I got this over the other ones because I wanted to read the 7 prefaces.

nice book but the pages are yellowed like it isn't new - thought I was buying a new book this thing is all yellowed

They are very casual.They've mentioned that the book has 354 pages. But the book I've received has merely 115 pages. Is there any joke going around???

Read this in context of when written and why. An inspiring manifesto to help formulate the working classes in to a unified body that would take a stand against harsh working conditions they were subjected to.

Un libro de historia del pensamiento politico centrado en dos autores clásicos donde Berman nos relata como se forja el concepto de autenticidad en la modernidad. El inicio del movimiento modernista. todo un lujo.

Pues esta es una de las dos ediciones de Penguin del Manifiesto Comunista. Lo adquirí por el ilustrador, que es realmente bueno y ha ilustrado dos portadas del Manifiesto en esta editorial, pero tenía la esperanza de contar con más ilustraciones en el interior, que no existen. Por lo tanto, por una parte la "edición" en cuanto a contenidos del Manifiesto Comunista es pobre (introducción, notas y "extras" como la anotación de Riazanov que hubieran aportado calidad) y, por la otra, que estéticamente más allá de la portada es también pobre. Sinceramente no lo recomiendo.