The Communist Manifesto

In this episode, we examine Marx and Engels’ brief but historically consequential text as a work of political rhetoric grounded in a broader historical claim: that the “mode of economic production and exchange” constitutes the foundation of social and intellectual life, and that human history is best understood as a sequence of class antagonisms. We consider the Manifesto’s attempt to present this thesis not merely as a programmatic platform, but as an ostensibly empirical account of historical development, culminating in a call for revolutionary action.
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