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THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO (originally Manifesto of the Communist Party) is an 1848 political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London (in the German language as Manifest der kommunistischen Partei) just as the revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. It presents an...
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Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview Marx and Engels developed during their hectic intellectual and political collaboration. Formulating the principles of dialectical materialism, they believed that labor creates wealth, hence capitalism is exploitive and antithetical to freedom.
This new edition includes an extensive introduction by Gareth Stedman...
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Escrito en 1848 por dos revolucionarios de 28 y 30 años, olvidado o revitalizado según el momento histórico, el Manifiesto Comunista se irradió por todo el globo y se tradujo a todas las lenguas, excediendo largamente la esfera del movimiento obrero y las izquierdas. Incluso después del fin del comunismo soviético y la declinación de los partidos marxistas, el Manifiesto se afirma como el clásico político más influyente, con mucho que decir...
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Marx wrote this 1847 work in response to Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's 1847 book, The System of Economic Contradictions, or Philosophy of Poverty. Accusing Proudhon of not only wanting to rise above the bourgeoisie, but also adhering to a quasi-religious faith in economic utopianism; Marx, on the contrary, proposes a scientific approach to the study of economic development.
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This pioneering 1859 deconstruction of capitalism and classical economics includes many of the ideas later incorporated into Marx's masterwork, Das Kapital. The preface introduces the author's economic theory of history: the idea that the way goods and services are produced determines the political and ideological nature of society.
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Written in 1844 as a series of notes, Marx's posthumously published critiques on the conditions of modern industrialist societies forms the foundation of the author's denunciation of capitalism. Combining elements of psychology, sociology, and anthropology, it is a profound examination of the human condition rooted in a philosophy of economics. In this concise treatise, Marx presents an indictment of capitalism and its threat to the working man, his...
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Karl Marx is one of the most influential social theorists and political philosophers of the 19th century. His hugely significant works "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital" fundamentally changed the way the world viewed economy and politics. His groundbreaking theory that much of a society's conflict is based on an economic imbalance between the wealthy ruling class, the bourgeoisie, who control the means of production, and the working class,...
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Originally written as a series of newspaper articles in 1847, Wage-Labor and Capital were intended to give an overview of Marx's central theories regarding the economic relationships between workers and capitalists. These theories outlined include the Marxian form of the Labour Theory of Value, which distinguishes "labor" from "labor-power", and the Theory of Concentration of Capital, which states that capitalism tends towards the creation of monopolies...
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Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin were influential figures in the history of socialism and communism. Karl Marx, a German philosopher, economist, and political theorist, provided the foundation for socialist and communist ideologies. His critical analysis of capitalism, as outlined in works like "Das Kapital" and "The Communist Manifesto," revolutionized social and economic theory. Marx emphasized the exploitative nature of capitalism and argued for the...
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Esta versión del Manifiesto del Partido Comunista es la más barata que también tiene audio de calidad superior. Nosotros editamos el audio para su placer. Usamos procesos de la computadora y trabajo manual para crear una experiencia buena de volumen y calidad sin ruidos malos. ¡Es nuestro distinto placer presentarle nuestra versión de Manifiesto del Partido Comunista por Karl Marx y F. Engels, narrado por Vanesa Amezquita!
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Ein Text von 1848, Utopie und Programm einer Bewegung, angetreten, die Welt zu verändern. Illusion und Hoffnung von Millionen....
Christian Brückner liest ein Stück Weltliteratur, liest an gegen das Vergessen, läßt Fragen und Nach-Denken entstehen, wo alle Antworten gegeben und das Urteil der Geschichte gefällt scheint.
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"Ein Gespenst geht um in Europa - das Gespenst des Kommunismus." Mit diesen Worten beginnt ein Text, der die Welt veränderte! Er endet mit dem bekannten Aufruf: "Proletarier aller Länder vereinigt euch!"
Das Kommunistische Manifest wurde von Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels 1847 im Auftrag des Bundes der Kommunisten verfasst und ist im Februar 1848 in London erschienen, zeitgleich zur Februarrevolution in Frankreich, kurze Zeit vor der Märzrevolution...
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The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
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Marx published "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" in 1852. The "Eighteenth Brumaire" refers to November 9, 1799 in the French Revolutionary Calendar-the day Napoleon Bonaparte made himself dictator. In this piece, Marx traces how the clash of different public interests manifest themselves in the complex net of political struggles, and in particular the contradictory relationships between the external form of a struggle and its real social...
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Communism as a political movement attained global importance after the Bolsheviks toppled the Russian Czar in 1917. After that time the works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, especially the influential Communist Manifesto (1848), enjoyed an international audience. The world was to learn a new political vocabulary peppered with "socialism," "capitalism," "the working class," "the bourgeoisie," "labor theory of value," "alienation," "economic determinism,"...
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El capital (en alemán: Das Kapital) es un conjunto de libros de Karl Marx, el primero de los cuales se publicó en 1867. La obra, que es un análisis crítico del capitalismo, es considerada por muchos como el hito del pensamiento socialista marxista y que Sirvió de base para el socialismo implementado posteriormente en algunos países. Karl Marx fue sin duda uno de los hombres que sacudió el conocimiento económico vigente en su época, cuestionando...
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Im Mittelpunkt des Werks "Zur Kritik der politischen Ökonomie" stehen der Wert der Waren in seiner doppelten Darstellungsform von Gebrauchswert und Tauschwert, die konkrete und die abstrakte Arbeit, die Arbeitszeit als quantitatives Maß der Arbeit, das Geld, die Zirkulation, Akkumulation, Produktions- und Handelskrisen. Marx beschreibt dabei auch die verkehrte Auffassung der ökonomischen Verhältnisse innerhalb der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft und...
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