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The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition

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By (author): Friedrich Engels Karl Marx

In the two decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, global capitalism became entrenched in its modern, neoliberal form. Its triumph was so complete that the word capitalism itself fell out of use in the absence of credible political alternatives. But with the outbreak of financial crisis and global recession in the twenty-first century, capitalism is once again up for discussion. The status quo can no longer be taken for granted.
As Eric Hobsbawm argues in his acute and elegant introduction to this modern edition, in such times The Communist Manifesto emerges as a work of great prescience and power despite being written over a century and a half ago. He highlights Marx and Engels's enduring insights into the capitalist system: its devastating impact on all aspects of human existence; its susceptibility to enormous convulsions and crises; and its fundamental weakness. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 121g
  • Dimensions: 142 x 191mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Apr 2012
  • Publisher: Verso Books
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781844678761

About Friedrich EngelsKarl Marx

Frederick Engels was born in 1820 in the German city of Barmen. Brought up as a devout Calvinist he moved to England in 1842 to work in his father's Manchester textile firm. After joining the fight against the counter revolution in Germany in 1848 he returned to Manchester and the family business finally settling there in 1850. In subsequent years he provided financial support for Marx and edited the second and third volumes of Capital. He died whilst working on the fourth volume in 1895.Karl Marx was born in 1818 in the Rhenish city of Trier the son of a successful lawyer. He studied law and philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Berlin completing his doctorate in 1841. In Paris three years later Marx was introduced to the study of political economy by a former fellow student Frederick Engels. In 1848 they collaborated in writing The Communist Manifesto. Expelled from Prussia in the same year Marx took up residence first in Paris and then in London where in 1867 he published his magnum opus Capital. A co-founder of the International Workingmen's Association in 1864 Marx died in London in 1883.A Fellow of the British Academy and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Eric Hobsbawm is the author of more than twenty books of history including The Age of Revolution and The Age of Extremes. He lives in London.

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