/lit/ - Literature

Communism, most likely.

A short work written for coal miners.

A lot of rhetoric and an entertaining read. If you want Marx's more serious stuff, Das Kapital would be better. And if you don't have time for that, you can find Wage Labour and Capital online pretty easily. It's a somewhat basic level introduction to his Marx's economic theories, written for the layman and rather short. It was a shame he never finished the series.

>>1826801
Brilliant.

>>1826794

I found the whole business of this text rather dry. I tried hard to be interetested but it just did not develop out in any remarkable way.

>>1826811
What do you mean by more serious?

>>1826826
Where he actually talks about his economic theories and such in great detail. Where he "proves" it, you might say. Communist Manifesto was written as a political pamphlet and was directed towards a large general audience, whereas his other works were more academic. I'm not trying to make light of the Communist Manifesto, just comparing it to his other works. Am I making sense here?

>>1826842
Yea, perfectly. Thanks.

>his copy of the Communist Manifesto
>his copy...Communist Manifesto
>his copy
>his

Don't be deceived by your pig friend, OP. He's quite clearly a bourgeois bastard. If he owns books, he likely also owns the means to production. If he owns the means to production, he owns YOU.

You'll probably convert to Marxism, but don't worry. At most you'll have to attend a few protests, wage a few Internet fights. It's not like you'll be expected to stop indulging in the fruits of capitalism. You can still have your daily Starbucks and that new iPod. And in a few years, you might even grow up.

>>1826865

I find that very unlikely. The communist manifesto is an awful bore. That is not to disparage any of the actual content of the text but it just does not capture great interest in (maybe) its English form.

It would take an awfully positive introduction for this fellow to fall over to that side.

Communist Manifesto is a bunch of Rah-Rah Go Team crap. It's also what most people read of the dude, and therefore come away with the idea that he's just some antagonistic prick with a shitty solution instead of a pretty insightful, pretty boring economist and historian who happened to develop a shitty solution to very real problems and insights.

Read some of Grundrisse and Capital instead. You will be intrigued, you will yawn.