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danieleales's review against another edition
4.0
Useful and crucial to properly understanding socialism. A very necessary text and one that manages to critique past attempts of utopian socialists and explains the importance of dialectics and the historic materialist method.
c_aura's review against another edition
I listened to the first episode of the podcast Red Menace to help me and others I was reading it with understand this text.
sleuthed's review against another edition
4.0
A good preface to Marx's Capital as well as Lenin's The State and Revolution. If you're already familiar with these texts you likely won't take away anything new aside from a little history of materialism as a philosophy.
bneadu's review against another edition
5.0
Great overall introduction to these topics. I feel like for the first time I am able to truly grasp historical materialism, and the mechanisms and levers in the capitalist system. I will be rereading this many times Im sure, as it is short, but dense.
I promise Im not becoming one of those problematic white male leftists who only want to argue theory on the internet.
I promise Im not becoming one of those problematic white male leftists who only want to argue theory on the internet.
evan_streeby's review against another edition
5.0
By far the most palatable and exciting work on socialism I’ve read so far. Engels essentially spells out, with shocking succinctness relative to most Marxist writers, the ills of society in his time, with clear analysis of our current era of capitalism as well.
There still remains to be a really accessible socialist text out there, one that isn’t bogged down with an assumption of philosophical education, but this one is fairly close.
I recommend it to anyone wanting to begin reading Marx
There still remains to be a really accessible socialist text out there, one that isn’t bogged down with an assumption of philosophical education, but this one is fairly close.
I recommend it to anyone wanting to begin reading Marx
ainoasanchez's review against another edition
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
5.0
el bolígraf era encès