Anonymous
10/18/2025, 6:37:04 PM
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>>150893254
The Communist Manifesto was political propaganda, not economic theory. It was a supplement to liberal policy suggestions during the revolutions of 1848. Importantly, it predates Marx and Engel's work as economists and is an explicitly political polemic. Its not talking about economics, its making broad critiques of the du jour liberal policy because 1848 was a time where those policies were being renegotiated. What we call Marxism today (Engels is underappreciated) came later, with Marx and Engel's being inspired by industrial England. That was when they made their famous predictions about how capitalism would become a world system, the working class would be exploited and the rate of profit would decline as new markets dried up. Marx got a lot wrong, mostly about people foreign to him as a white antisemitic European guy in the 1800s. But he nailed those, the theories were solid.
The Communist Manifesto was political propaganda, not economic theory. It was a supplement to liberal policy suggestions during the revolutions of 1848. Importantly, it predates Marx and Engel's work as economists and is an explicitly political polemic. Its not talking about economics, its making broad critiques of the du jour liberal policy because 1848 was a time where those policies were being renegotiated. What we call Marxism today (Engels is underappreciated) came later, with Marx and Engel's being inspired by industrial England. That was when they made their famous predictions about how capitalism would become a world system, the working class would be exploited and the rate of profit would decline as new markets dried up. Marx got a lot wrong, mostly about people foreign to him as a white antisemitic European guy in the 1800s. But he nailed those, the theories were solid.