The Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels
The Communist Manifesto, Friedrich Engels
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The Communist Manifesto
Penguin Classics

Author: Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Gareth Stedman Jones

Narrator: Arinze Kene

Unabridged: 7 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/26/2019


Synopsis

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This Penguin Classic is performed by Arinzé Kene, writer and performer of Olivier Award nominated Misty, and also known for his roles in Youngers, Informer and Eastenders. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Gareth Stedman Jones.

The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes, is one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated. After four years of collaboration the authors produced this incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage a society without classes, private property or a state. They argue that increasing exploitation of industrial workers will eventually lead to a revolution in which Capitalism is overthrown. This vision provided the theoretical basis of political systems in Russia, China, Cuba and Eastern Europe, affecting the lives of millions. The Communist Manifesto still remains a landmark text: a work that continues to influence and provoke debate on capitalism and class.

(c) 1888, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels (P) 2019 Penguin Audio

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jeremy on June 23, 2013

Long overdue update (2013): I read this book five years ago and in almost every respect, I have mellowed considerably. You can read my review below. It's unchanged. You can read the comments below that. Also unchanged. I never seriously expected anyone to read this review, much less love or hate it so......more

Goodreads review by Jason on June 13, 2008

Read this and understand why your imperialist capitalist government spent the better part of a century playing hot potato with ICBMs, invading and incinerating peaceful, peasant countries, and making your mom and dad piss themselves under school desks. The elite were scared shitless and by no means......more

Goodreads review by Sean Barrs on February 10, 2017

Communism doesn’t work. Its ideals are perfectly understandable, justifiable even, but the way it seeks to attain them, that’s just terrible. In reality communist policy falls apart or isn’t fully followed. The driving force is to achieve a classless rather than class based society. Sounds good on p......more

Goodreads review by Barry on September 16, 2014

What can I say? Marx was right. Almost.......more

Goodreads review by Leonard on December 03, 2022

With a profuse beard, a Beethovenian hairstyle, a knack for well-chosen demonstrations and ground-breaking political ideas, Karl Marx was (still is) an idol. And The Communist Manifesto, although extremely short (alongside Das Kapital, which is extremely long), is one of the most influential texts i......more