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The Communist Manifesto
by multiple authors

The Communist Manifesto
by multiple authors

The Communist Manifesto
by multiple authors

(noun) a eulogistic oration or writing / (noun) formal or elaborate praise

xxi

Marx and Engels left no detailed blueprint of what a socialist or communist society should look like, something that led academic Marxists to pronounce that Marx’s originality lay in his philosophy and economics. Others utilized his panegyrics celebrating the revolutionary capacities of capital to argue that the gravediggers were the capitalists themselves

—p.xxi Introduction to the Communist Manifesto (iii) by Tariq Ali
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7 years, 3 months ago

Marx and Engels left no detailed blueprint of what a socialist or communist society should look like, something that led academic Marxists to pronounce that Marx’s originality lay in his philosophy and economics. Others utilized his panegyrics celebrating the revolutionary capacities of capital to argue that the gravediggers were the capitalists themselves

—p.xxi Introduction to the Communist Manifesto (iii) by Tariq Ali
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7 years, 3 months ago

a chain or manacle used to restrain a prisoner, typically placed around the ankles

14

At a certain stage in the development of these means of production and of exchange, the conditions under which feudal society produced and exchanged, the feudal organization of agriculture and manufacturing industry, in one word, the feudal relations of property became no longer compatible with the already developed productive forces; they became so many fetters. They had to be burst asunder; they were burst asunder.

—p.14 Manifesto of the Communist Party (1) by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
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7 years, 3 months ago

At a certain stage in the development of these means of production and of exchange, the conditions under which feudal society produced and exchanged, the feudal organization of agriculture and manufacturing industry, in one word, the feudal relations of property became no longer compatible with the already developed productive forces; they became so many fetters. They had to be burst asunder; they were burst asunder.

—p.14 Manifesto of the Communist Party (1) by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
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7 years, 3 months ago

(noun) pretentious inflated speech or writing

62

And on its part, German socialism recognized, more and more, its own calling as the bombastic representative of the petty-bourgeois philistine

—p.62 Manifesto of the Communist Party (1) by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
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7 years, 3 months ago

And on its part, German socialism recognized, more and more, its own calling as the bombastic representative of the petty-bourgeois philistine

—p.62 Manifesto of the Communist Party (1) by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx
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7 years, 3 months ago

a medicine prepared by an unqualified person, especially one that is not considered effective; a scheme or remedy for bringing about some social or political reform or improvement

80

The very events and vicissitudes of the struggle against capital, the defeats even more than the victories, could not help bringing home to men’s minds the insufficiency of their various favourite nostrums, and preparing the way for a more complete insight into the true conditions of working-class emancipation

—p.80 Preface to the English Edition of 1888 (77) by Friedrich Engels
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7 years, 3 months ago

The very events and vicissitudes of the struggle against capital, the defeats even more than the victories, could not help bringing home to men’s minds the insufficiency of their various favourite nostrums, and preparing the way for a more complete insight into the true conditions of working-class emancipation

—p.80 Preface to the English Edition of 1888 (77) by Friedrich Engels
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7 years, 3 months ago

having many varied parts or aspects; multifaceted

84

the most multifarious social quacks, who, by all manners of tinkering, professed to redress, without any danger to capital and profit, all sorts of social grievances

—p.84 Preface to the English Edition of 1888 (77) by Friedrich Engels
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7 years, 3 months ago

the most multifarious social quacks, who, by all manners of tinkering, professed to redress, without any danger to capital and profit, all sorts of social grievances

—p.84 Preface to the English Edition of 1888 (77) by Friedrich Engels
notable
7 years, 3 months ago