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A review by dorothy_gale
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
2.0
Surprising relevance for something written in 1848, but unfortunately I had the world's worst narrator who ruined most of it for me (Matt Montanez). The word 'bourgeois' occurs 303 times and he mispronounced it as "ber-juss."
Another term, proletariat, was a bit jarring since after 1970 most people just say 'working class.' My generation has to google it!
Content-wise, the CM is clearly an attempt to influence history by spreading information about a movement... which we see a lot of today. Marx was passionate and confident in his writing, so I haven't given up on him... but I think I will seek out his Hegel-ish content.
"One of Marx's primary intellectual influences was the work of G.W.F. Hegel. Hegel's theory presents history as a process in which the world becomes conscious of itself as spirit. Marx took this idea and furthered it, arguing that as man becomes conscious of himself as spirit, the material world causes him to feel increasingly alienated from himself. Escape from this alienation requires a revolution."
Another term, proletariat, was a bit jarring since after 1970 most people just say 'working class.' My generation has to google it!
Content-wise, the CM is clearly an attempt to influence history by spreading information about a movement... which we see a lot of today. Marx was passionate and confident in his writing, so I haven't given up on him... but I think I will seek out his Hegel-ish content.
"One of Marx's primary intellectual influences was the work of G.W.F. Hegel. Hegel's theory presents history as a process in which the world becomes conscious of itself as spirit. Marx took this idea and furthered it, arguing that as man becomes conscious of himself as spirit, the material world causes him to feel increasingly alienated from himself. Escape from this alienation requires a revolution."