The Communist Manifesto & Family

I think that "The Communist Manifesto" certainly has some 'prestige' behind it which makes it an interesting read.

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Can you show me where it is on this map?

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t. liberal

By that retarded logic then every single country in history that no longer exists was a failure, which is a baseless claim and something a stupid fuck like yourself would claim.

I'm only familiar with his manual on guerrilla warfare, which is apolitical enough that Al Qaeda used it for a while, and the Motorcycle Diaries, about his travels around south america. I guess you could use one of his speeches at the UN if you really wanted to, but I don't know if those explain communism very well.

Allow me to rephrase for that user: the failure of the USSR to bring about a world socialist republic and ultimately achieve communism

We always give shit to the Communst Manifesto and we shouldn't do that. People say Marx's economic works are much better, that it's better to start with something like Gothakritik or the Economic Manuscripts. What people forget when they compare the Manifesto to those works is that it's not trying to be hard economics. You're comparing professional wrestling to olympic wrestling. The Manifesto trying to draw people in and explain the basics of class struggle and its form throughout history in a compelling, simple, and somewhat romantic, story-like way. Most normies don't want to read something economic, even something short and sweet like Gothakritk. The Manifesto is not going to give an avid Marxist any new info, but it's not for anyone whose read Capital, it's for the people who aren't likely to read anything else by Marx. And it's crazy well written. We should shill it like crazy.

We'd need a really good author though. Marx is a literary legend.
Is wage labor itself still the most relevant topic to first-world proles? Sure, it's the basis of everything, but unlike workers in the time of Marx, people aren't worried about having to meet their basic necessities anymore. My impression is that different topics would speak to them, such as alienation, worker control, and the irrationality of the capitalist economy.
Further we'd need to talk about information economics. It's a strong topic that will play in our favor. Especially since it's unexpected. Capitalists think they can corner us by shouting "PRICE SIGNALS" at the top of their lungs. If we start talking about how the capitalist economy completely mismanages information (a fact which everyone and their dog could tell you at this point) they'd be stumped.

If you can't accept the narrative that the USSR failed to a minimal degree, you won't be able to connect with people. It's over. You've shot yourself in the foot. We need to present ourselves as "libertarian" communists. I know the term is theoretically meaningless, but they won't appreciate that. They just want to be assured we won't do whatever they imagine Stalin having done. We should just acknowledge that enormous personality cults and one hundred quadrillion-zillion people dying are bad things, and start doing real work.

The manifesto is totally irrelevant. There are no feudal socialists to worry about corrupting the movement. The demands have mostly been met in many wealthy countries. The reader is not left with much of an idea of what exactly is wrong with capitalism.

Please, write such a work- these topics are not treated on thoroughly or at all in the manifesto.