Image ofCarlo Marx Friedrich Engels

Carlo Marx Friedrich Engels

Writer

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels co-authored The Communist Manifesto (1848) and are central figures in the development of Marxist political theory.

The Communist Manifesto was first published in 1848. Marx and Engels developed concepts of class struggle, historical materialism and critiques of capitalism.

A single critical review (De Lorenzo) analyzes The Communist Manifesto and argues that communist ideals require coercive state power and are incompatible with democracy. The reviewer frames communism as a utopian, messianic project with historical totalitarian outcomes. The review critiques both theory and its 20th-century implementations.

For:Readers interested in political theory, students of modern political history, critics of communism and democracy

 

Communism does not exist in nature, and as a rule, it does not exist in the culture of human beings: throw a bone to two dogs, and they will fight over it; the same goes for a toy given to a child with the promise of sharing it with siblings: it won’t happen; no one would then want to share their woman, or their man, with other women or men, unless they are perverse or inverted; their roof with strangers, unless forced by circumstances and needs.

  Discover the review
You and Carlo Marx Friedrich Engels
Who knows Carlo Marx Friedrich Engels?
Loading...