A new beautiful edition of the Communist Manifesto, combined with
Lenin's key revolutionary tract It was the 1917 Russian Revolution
that transformed the scale of The Communist Manifesto, making it
the key text for socialists everywhere. On the centenary of this
upheaval, this volume pairs Marx and Engels's most famous work with
Lenin's own revolutionary manifesto, "The April Theses," which
lifts politics from the level of everyday banalities to become an
art-form. The Communist Manifesto "Oppressor and oppressed, stood
in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted,
now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in
a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the
common ruin of the contending classes." The Communist Manifesto is
the most influential political text ever written-few other calls to
action have stirred and changed the world. Now, in the wake of a
punishing financial crisis, in a world built on regimes of
permanent austerity, each rife with horrific disparities in wealth,
this short book remains a reference point for those trying to
understand the transformations being wrought by capitalism and its
concomitant forms of exploitation. This centenary edition includes
a new introduction by Tariq Ali, contextualizing the period-the eve
of the 1848 revolutions-in which Marx and Engels penned their
masterpiece and argues that it desperately needs a successor. "The
April Theses" "The chain breaks first at its weakest link." In
Lenin's "April Theses," written in 1917, he presented his ten
analytical maxims, outlining a programme to accelerate and complete
the revolution that had begun in February of that year. Now, on the
revolution's centenary, Verso presents them here alongside Lenin's
'Letters from Afar', written in exile that March and addressed to
his comrades in Petrograd. In these missives, he offers advice and
instruction to comrades pushing ahead with their ideals in the
aftermath of the February revolution. The introduction by Tariq Ali
traces The Communist Manifesto's influence on Lenin's "April
Theses," the text that brought the manifesto to life and made it
one of the most widely read books in history. For Lenin, writes
Ali, it was the birth of imperialism, the legitimate offspring of
capitalism, that signalled the end of the latter's "progressive
capacities."
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