In the 67 pages of the manifesto, only two are devoted to listing what the policies of the communists would be. And no one should dare complain because the Bourgeois Capitalists are only getting their just desserts-and if you’re part of the Proletariat then your possessions are meager and you would have eventually lost them anyway because capitalism will eventually ruin you. Readers don’t even receive a clear summary of the belief of communism until page 29, which is “the abolition of all private property.” There aren’t any instructions for how this should be organized and administered, it should just happen, even if it requires brute force. “ The Communist Manifesto” is very vague in this respect. The Oxford Dictionary defines a manifesto to be “a public declaration of policy and aims.” I’ve heard plenty of arguments and facts that denounce communism and prove that it’s a failed ideology with disastrous consequences when put in practice, but I’d never read the original source of this ideology so maybe the apologist historians were onto something? Defining Communism Their argument is that if Marx was still alive when the Soviet Union was formed, he would have disavowed it and claimed this was not what he envisioned.
Some historians like to play the devil’s advocate when it comes to Karl Marx-the author of the work-and how communism was executed during the 20th century. One title that I recently discovered in their free library is “The Communist Manifesto.” Described as a pamphlet and not a book, at 67 pages it’s a quick read that’s very much lacking in substance. The Apple Book Store has a lot of classical eBooks that can be downloaded for free with choices that range from all six volumes of Edward Gibbon’s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire through The Federalist Papers.
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