Click on the headline to link to a Marxist Internet Archive online copy of the Manifesto Of The Communist Party- the foundational document of the modern international communist movement.
Markin comment:
Every once in a while, sometimes when things are going well for our movement which is not the case today, or when they are going badly which is closer to today's truth, I have to re-read this document. Although it is no magic elixir and contains no easy fixes it certainly, in its main parts, reads as a very modern document. Perhaps because the tasks outlined for the communist future then are still before us today.
P.S. I always have to comment on Chapter III. Socialist and Communist Literature of the polemic with this note. Before coming over to Marxism many years ago I probably held just about every political position that they (Marx and Engels) polemicized against, except maybe feudalistic socialism. And I am so not sure that I might not have held that position at some point. Read on-and fight, fight for our communist future.
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Markin comment on this document:
Hey, wait a minute, this document, with the exception of the demands for a bourgeois democratic republic which were very appropriate in Germany (or rather in order to unify the then various German statelets) in 1848, reads like the Transitional Program. We had better "crib" some of this stuff and walk, no run, right out into the streets now and start yelling these demands from Boston to Berlin to Bombay.
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