'Manifesto of the Communist Party' (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels #Marxist #Audiobook #S4A

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Timestamps:
0:00 Intro, comments
2:11 Section One: Bourgeois and Proletarians
30:08 Section Two: Proletarians and Communists
49:34 Section Three: Socialist and Communist Literature
1:10:16 Section Four: Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Opposition Parties
1:13:12 End comments

[danishaffer]

Every time I read or listen to the manifesto it opens up more fully to me. The more socialist education you have the more meaning this text communicates.

[JohnT.]

This is one of the classics. I would write further but there seems to be a problem with cutting and pasting today which I was going to elaborate on a few things. Is it YT? One of points was the constant cherry picking of what is in the Manifesto by the opponents of socialism. They usually cite that all property would be owned by the state and everyone else would have nothing. We all know that Marx was talking about capitalist property. Another point is that no proletariat political party should be opposed to other proletariat parties. Nor should the claim of having the "true socialism."

[arttulindroos]

This was my first communist book I ever listened to. Now half year later im listening to this again and I understand everything way more clearly

[hydrostatic]

First time getting through this. Absolutely incredible

[salahuddinabdul-aziz]

Greetings Comrades! I'm new to this political space, however, I'm really enjoying learning all the new concepts and ideas which I already see would improve the conditions of the people in AFRIKA which I am primarily concerned about!

[sentientnatalie]

This was truly awesome. :) Just imagine how much of a storm it carried back in 1848! This is the first time I've encountered, in full, the famous Communist Manifesto. Ripper beginning, banger ending, fantastic writing and points all the way through! That ending, incidentally, always has me tearing up.

[haydenbuchholz]

Been a few years since I last read the manifesto. This video was a great refresher!!

[hiera]

15:37 — “too narrow” is about the most apt and best way i’ve ever heard anybody describe the crisis of overproduction. brilliant

[noobunion]

0:00 Intro, comments
2:11 Section One: Bourgeois and Proletarians
30:08 Section Two: Proletarians and Communists
49:34 Section Three: Socialist and Communist literature
1:10:16 Section Four: Position of the Communists in relation to the various opposition parties
1:13:12 End comments

I personally, as well as most other texts, take either a long time to understand it, or never understand swathes of it. The Manifesto is one of them sadly, but I hope everyone else understands it better than I do.

[waltonsmith]

This is such a poetic and beautiful book.

[williammdsilva]

First Marxist work I read. Excellent text.

[dandeasy]

Thank You - That was amazing and at times, actually funny - Is it Marx or Engels who has the acid tongue?

[danishaffer]

It’s ironic I just listened to livestream 88 and here’s Marx saying capitalism will smash through all Chinese walls. I get he’s referring to the Great Wall but it’s still ironic timing. This is a good metaphor though because it positions capitalism in the role of Genghis khan a destructive war lord. So Marx is saying capitalism is the pillager of the world, which I can’t disagree with.

[danishaffer]

I would argue that the poet isn’t an honored and revered occupation, I would argue that everyone’s a poet some people simply have more training in poetry. I only bring this up because I think looking at artist as profession is a bourgeois perspective. Art is something to be opened to all people, it is the birthright and pinnacle of human evolution. To create a proletarian literature you don’t compel the ‘excellent’ writers to produce a certain kind of poetry to compel literature in a specific way. To be the engineers of the human souls as Zhdanov phrased it. No to create a proletarian literature you train the people to write poetry and stories. You encourage and enable its production, to create a proletarian literature one must enlist the proletariat. Proletarian literature arises from the soil, bourgeois literature descends from on high. Kick the stool out from beneath the ‘artists’ they’re nothing special, no more creative or artistic than anyone else.

[CBleys]

What do they mean at 11:39 when they say "rescued from the idiocy of rural life?"

[michaelkingsbury]

2750 people now own half of global wealth. Where do we go when Labor is replaced with automation?

[nukadirtbag]

It's an oldie but it's also a Goldie

[antipsychotic]

God, listening to Marx is like trying to translate an alien language. Sometimes I feel that his works are purposefully obtuse in their language and content. Irrespective of the fact that his work is practically ancient and translated from another language, his tone is _incredibly_ dry and reliant on context. I feel that there needs to be some sort of contemporary translation of Marxist texts for them to actually have any real value to the modern socialist who's interested in reading theory.