This book is very evil indeed! However, it should be read to understand the nature of what we are fighting against. There is no compassion within the pages of this book. Find on page 22 this books main goal. "Abolition of the family!" Is the books main purpose.
This book deceptively uses such old arguments as how bad factory working conditions are as a way to gain support for its real intent of destroying the sanctity of the family. Again on page 22, "The bourgeois claptrap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parent & child, becomes all the more disgusting...."
Marx continues to attempt at pulling people into this evil work by dividing men and women and attacking marriage, child labour, etc. Of course any thinking person is against child labour.
In addition to the "abolition of the family," look at Marx's other real purpose of writing this book and you will soon understand. His talk about the working man is nothing more than trickery to get you to buy into his evil scheme to do away with man's agency. Man's sovereignty & agency to choose for himself lies at the foundation of this most abominable work.
Read the 10 planks which are completely opposed to the US Constitutions original 10 amendments. The original Constitution of the United States is completely opposite and opposed to this book. Look at the results of each system today? The reason America is headed in the same direction now is, the original US Constitution is no longer the rule of law, rather, the US has embraced all 10 planks of the Communist Manifesto. Which is at the root of all its problems. The US needs desperately to return to being the light unto the world for liberty (i.e., man's agency), protection of the individual & family (marriage), private property (in all its forms), which are all God given rights. Take a good look at the fruits of the United States vs. Russia or China to understand the difference.
i don't see how any one could not agree with this!
this books is for one with true will to change and set things strait
this book has a storng foundation based on dialectical materialism, and where almost all contemporary knowledge started. this book is not for those willing to appreciate deconstructions of myths inside their head, this is for real people who wants to change this godamn world because of people who are greedy enough to kill us all.
What Mr. L Chang wrote about this book is damn rite... Althougt there's alot of terrible things happen because of this ideology... n many critics abt the aplication in the real life.. but... we hv to read it... its a very beautifull thought... We'll hv a diffrent perspective abt this life.. a better one. And hear the song "Imagine" from John Lennon. I guess we will be much2 better person. A very kind, social, happy..n will hv alot of joy in this sad world.
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This was our gospel when I grew up in China. After getting an economics Ph.D. from Yale and finally became a professor in this field, I would still recommend you to read this book. Not because everything it said is correct, for we know it is not, but because it offers you a chance to look at the world from a refreshingly different perspective. In this way you will not be too narrow-minded. Much of what it said about capitalism is still true in the developing countries, including rapidly growing ones like China. Seeing the cheap labors toiling in the factories, and seeing how bad the working environment is and how little help and care the workers get, you may understand the authors more, about their compassion, about their ideas. After all, the world market is linked, an so many goods you might be consuming are produced in these factories. Then, hopefully,you may understand more events in this World, and not just in a few most developed countries sitting on the top of the international consumption chain.
This book is horrible. It doesn't stand for God and his laws about freedom and justice at all.
I had to read this in college. It was interesting for sheer historical perspective value: it's amazing how many things have come from this book. Unfortunately, most of them horrible tragedies; nations and lives have been and continue to be destroyed because of this man's ideas. The manifesto has been proven time and again to be inviable in the real world. And, honestly, it's hard for me to even look at this work from a purely objective standpoint anymore, not being able to forget all the evil and destruction its followers have wrought.
The foundation stone of Utopia...
