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_aMarx, Karl,
_d1818-1883.
245 1 0 _aThe Communist Manifesto :
_ba modern edition. /
_cKarl Marx and Frederick Engels.
_htxt
250 _a1st ed.
264 _aNew York :
_bVerso ,
_c2012.
300 _a87 p.
_c20 cm.
_fbook
336 _2rdacontent
_atext
_btxt
337 _2rdamedia
_aunmediaded
_bn
338 _2rdacarrier
_avolume
_bnc
500 _aIncludes index
505 _aContents : Introduction Eric Hobsbawm 1 -- Manifesto of the Communist Party Karl Marx and Frederick Engels 31 -- Preface of the English Edition of 1888 Frederick Engels 79 --
520 _aIn the two decades following the fall of the Berlin Wall, global capitalism became entrenched in its modern, neoliberal form. Its triumph was so complete that the word "capitalism" itself fell out of use in the absence of credible political alternatives. But with the outbreak of financial crisis and global recession in the twenty-first century, capitalism is once again up for discussion. The status quo can no longer be taken for granted. As Eric Hobsbawm argues in his acute and elegant introduction to this modern edition, in such times The Communist Manifesto emerges as a work of great prescience and power despite being written over a century and a half ago. He highlights Marx and Engels's enduring insights into the capitalist system: its devastating impact on all aspects of human existence; its susceptibility to enormous convulsions and crises; and its fundamental weakness --
650 0 _aCommunism.
_xPolitical Science
_978805
_2Local
700 0 0 _aEngels, Friedrich,
_d1820-1895
_bHobsbawm, E. J
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