The Communist Manifesto? Is that a video game?
Leon Trotsky? What’s his Twitter handle?
Antonio Gramsci? Did he invent Instagram?
The Communist Manifesto? Is that a video game?
Leon Trotsky? What’s his Twitter handle?
Antonio Gramsci? Did he invent Instagram?
The average non-marxist has probably only read Marx and Engels’ introductory works and maybe a little bit of Lenin.
e: I know there’s nothing that really indicates this but I was joking
In what country? In the USA, a lot of people don’t read books unless it’s required for school or work. If they do read for pleasure, it’s often young adult, bs ‘self help’ (ie Rich Dad, Poor Dad), or shallow non fiction that reinforces what they already believe.
The average non-Marxist has heard of the Communist Manifesto and thinks that is the extent of the philosophical canon. The average Liberal has not even read any Liberal philosophy, like Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Paine, etc.
The average non-marxist doesn’t know that “Capital” and “The Communist Manifesto” are different things, much less that the latter is a pamphlet and not a book.
100%
I remember reading the communist manifesto in university twice because I was sure I must have missed something. (This was extra curricular, I was in engineering) Like it was fine, but it didn’t really live up to my expectations of reframing history by analyzing it through the lens of class.
I only recently figured out that it wasn’t Capital. (It was before I read your post but probably within the last year, so ~15 years from when I read the manifesto).
I haven’t gotten around to reading Capital, would it work as an audio book?
Here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUW6cjZgi7Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Cpj_wXF88
I would also recommend David Harvey’s supplemental explanations of Capital, he is very down to earth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5vu4MpYgUo&list=PLWvnUfModHP9Ci8M1g39l4AZgK6YLCXd0
Reminds me, I’ve been thinking about pivoting to audiobooks since I do delivery driving for a living. Wouldn’t be able to focus totally on the material, but possibly more worthwhile as learning material than podcasts.
I want to say Capital was serialized in magazines in France for similar reasons?
The French are too eager for theory for serialisations.
Relevant xkcd?
i can’t find it now but yeah :p
found it!