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THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO NOWSocialist Register 1998 “The Socialist Register has been the intellectual lodestar for the international left since 1965.” — MIKE DAVIS One hundred and fifty years have passed since Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, two young Germans in exile, wrote the Communist Manifesto. Conventional wisdom has it that on the eve of the twenty-first century Marxism and socialism are vanquished doctrines, antiquated and outmoded by subsequent developments. Yet capitalism’s global triumph has, paradoxically, laid bare its many inadequacies and failings: economic, spiritual, and environmental. This volume of the SOCIALIST REGISTER uses the occasion of the Manifesto’s anniversary to explore the origins of Marx and Engels’ thought in the revolutionary currents of nineteenth-century Europe. That, however, is merely its starting point. The central focus of the collection is the profound relevance of the famous pamphlet today, a theme brilliantly explored in essays on such subjects as the relationship between the Communist Manifesto and contemporary political and democratic theory, the labor movement, feminism, the history of the left, environmentalism, and postmodernity. DEAR DR. MARX: A LETTER FROM A SOCIALIST FEMINIST About the Editors If you have any technical comments or suggestions, about this web site, please send e-mail to Our Webmaster at mrwebmaster@monthlyreview.org.  |
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