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Why is this still one of the best commentaries on our society and how we can fix it?

gf recently read Capital (originally just because she was into philosophy) and it turned her into a complete fucking moron. A few days ago she said that if McDonald's cut their profit margin, then employees could live very comfortable and have shorter hours. And then I asked her if she was a communist now or something, and she said no of course not. And then a couple of days after that, we were having dinner with her dad and she accused him of exploiting his workers, which is absolute bullshit, he owns a small business and all his employees love him and he workers harder than anyone there by a long shot.

now she's reading Veblen and Althusser and still denying she's a communist and she's not shopping or anything much anymore. She's still a teenager, so that's pretty strange, but a lot of it comes down to her way of rebelling from daddy, I'm 100% positive, because he's conservative and a business owner

so give me some books I can give her to set her straight (no Ayn Rand plz). I already got her Hayek and Animal Farm, what else?

It really feels that way in hindsight.

Jesus christ does this thing here get any better after the first chapter or does it stay the same fucking drivel?

I mean I find it all nice how Marx actually tries to explain the creation of the (back then) modern proletariat and everything, but holy shit so far this thing is nothing more than a whiny pamphlet on how the doers in society (and he even accredits that to the burgois) were smart enough to create and innovate while the dumber workers stayed fucking plebs.

I don't have a good knowledge of politics. I was never really interested in it. But now (when I grew up) I'm getting into it it. But it's so confusing.
Anyway, I'm away to read the communist manifesto. Will I need to have knowledge in politics to get it? I don't even know what a communist is.

Can someone explain briefly what it is? also what's a Marxism?
And thoughts on the manifesto?

Hi /lit/, does anyone have any idea what the capitalist (rough) equivalent of the "Communist Manifesto" is? I'm trying to broaden my knowledge on both systems.

Just read this for the first time, it's actually pretty entertaining.

"The world transformed by capitalism is recognizably the world in which we live
150 years later" (Hobsbawm 1998)

Anyone else read this book? I personally thought it was a load of bullshit. Opinions?

ITT: Your ideas on the Manifesto