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Today’s importance of Marx’s “Manifesto of the Communist Party”

 
 
 
 
 
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On the occasion of the 160th anniversary of the "Manifesto of the Communist Party" Can it be said that the “Manifesto of the Communist Party” is the “Bible” of the working class? It can, but only figuratively. Engels’ foreword to the English edition of the “Manifesto of the Communist Party” from 1888 clearly indicates an antidogmatic relation of Marx and Engels to their own “Manifesto”. A literal interpretation of the “Manifesto” turns Marx’s criticism of capitalism into a dogmatic thought, and the communist movement into a sectarian movement.

A contemporary analysis of the “Manifesto” poses the following question: does the development of capitalism open a possibility for the development of Marxist thought, or does it more and more radically question it?
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06/06/2008

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