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Customers find the book easy to read and informative. They find it educational and thought-provoking, making it a great read for students. Many consider it good value for money, saying it’s worth buying. The book is lightweight and portable, making it easy to carry around. However, some readers feel the material is too thin and flimsy. Opinions are mixed on the ideology of communism, with some finding it interesting and useful, while others think it’s disgusting and horrible.
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The political tract in which Marx presented the core of his philosophy and revolutionary program.
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Reviewer: David P. Morrow, Rathdrum, Idaho, U.S.; Long-time socialist, supporter of the Socialist Workers Party, “The Militant” newspaper and Pathfinder Press
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: recommend version with introduction by Leon Trotsky
Review: I recommend the edition of the Communist Manifesto with an introduction by Leon Trotsky, the Russian revolutionary leader and preeminent Marxist leader after Lenin’s death. Trotsky discusses which ideas in the Manifesto “retain their full force today and those which require important alteration or amplification.” In the process, he highlights the most important conclusions in the Manifesto, some of which are so concise in the Manifesto itself you might not realize you’ve just read something major.(To find the edition, go to amazon.com/advanced-search/books and enter Author “Leon Trotsky” instead of Marx, and Title “Communist Manifesto”.)This edition has other advantages. It also includes:– The preface to the 1872 German edition, which adds an important new conclusion to the Manifesto, based on the 1871 uprising in France. You might think this preface would be included in most editions, but it isn’t.– All the footnotes that Marx and Engels wrote to the various editions published in their lifetimes.– Excellent footnotes by the editors, explaining things that most people today aren’t familiar with.– A thorough index.– Large readable type, probably better than what you see on your screen right now.None of this can be taken for granted – most editions lack most of this.* * *Check out the well-chosen excerpts on the back cover, an excellent summary. Click on the image below. (You may want to click Ctrl + a few times to enlarge it. To reset, Ctrl 0.)For further reading I recommend Labor, Nature, and the Evolution of Humanity by Marx, Engels and two leaders of the Socialist Workers Party, available at pathfinderpress.com. See my Amazon review.(I’m a supporter of the Socialist Workers Party, ‘The Militant’ weekly newspaper and Pathfinder Press.)
Reviewer: Storms
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I’ve bought 3
Review: Wonderful book or rather pamphlet 😍😍😍
Reviewer: Matt A
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Pocket sized communism
Review: I love my pocket communism.
Reviewer: Timothy Officially
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: A Surprise World Classic Of Human Liberation
Review: The Communist Manifesto needs no introduction. Ironically, when Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels first authored it, they believed the text would disappear into extinction due to the dissolution of The Communist League and the Cologne Communist Trials. The text experienced a rebirth and popularity years in the future.In truth, The Communist Manifesto gives a very helpful clarification on the stages of evolution in the modes of production and appropriation across time from feudalism to capitalism, i.e., historical materialism, and points out the organic birth of the proletariat from the property relations of capitalism, a.k.a. the gravediggers of the bourgeoisie. Furthermore, the treatment enumerates the forms of socialism, e.g., reactionary, petty-bourgeois, true-idealist, utopian, etc.If you study The Communist Manifesto, recall that Karl and Friedrich authored this relatively early in their lives, less than 30 years old. It increases the excitement of the text to imagine the hysteria and anger of the secret police hunting through the streets trying to arrest communists as they convened in secrecy.I would urge anyone, whether communist or capitalist, to study The Communist Manifesto, even if only to see into the brain of a communist. You might relate to it more than you suspect.
Reviewer: TinyWanda
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Awfully Dense Ideography with Little Refutation ( ? )
Review: Should’ve included some friendly cartoon characters interacting with graphics & maps + cultural foundational taboos to provide distinctions between ethic origins & solutions that worked or failed in various contexts that would piece together a more universal solution— & provide an explanation for why communist societies are exclusively lead by such suppressive antievolutionists ( technology & independent entrepreneurs with fresh ideas ( ? )
Reviewer: hstoops29
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great for its price!
Review: While the quality is not the greatest, for the cheap price there isn’t much to ask. I needed the manifesto for a college class and this edition was perfect and got the job done.The front and back covers are made of glossy thick paper. The actual pages are rather thin having a degree of opacity but nothing that may be too obtrusive. Two staplers together hold everything.The contents of the book are just the Communist Manifesto and Engels’ notes/annotations. For most people this will be enough. Many of the more expensive copies of the manifesto tend to include prefaces or annotations by other authors, while this is just the Communist Manifesto.
Reviewer: Johnny Cox’Stanton
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Sucks
Review: The packaging came well so I’m not complaining about that but the actual book is bad. Very boring pretended to be deep (many fall for it) short book that I’m glad I read as now I’ll never have to again. Makes sense a book this boring would create a bad ideology.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Was looking for the 56 pg version of book!
Review: I was looking for this book for a reread. It is what I remembered and is 56 pages long. A must read to understand politics and where many get their ideas about money and class.
Reviewer: Second to NUN
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: 戯言ならべて破壊と支配を正当化してるだけだと思いますがその内容を確認するために読みました
Reviewer: MANOJ KUMAR
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Pure utopian thoughts based only on assumptions, no practicality in ideas and thoughts of the author, this communism fanatic ideology has led to massacre of at least 20 million humans
Reviewer: Arjan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: i did a report on communism for my final in English and i only use this book and got a A+
Reviewer: lord_ascot
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: not much content.
Reviewer: Naz
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Wasted over an hour before deciding not to waste anymore of my time.
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