"The Commie-Manny" Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto

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Today we divert from Capital to set the stage for what was to come. The Communist Manifesto, unlike Marx's later work, was a polemic that contains many seeds of method that Marx would use later in his life. Coinciding with European revolution across the continent, we give a bit of historical context to expand the reasons that led to the writing of Capital and the explosion of revolutionary thought and action in the 19th and early 20th century.