The Communist Manifesto? Is that a video game?

Leon Trotsky? What’s his Twitter handle?

Antonio Gramsci? Did he invent Instagram?

  • macabrett@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    The average non-marxist doesn’t know that “Capital” and “The Communist Manifesto” are different things, much less that the latter is a pamphlet and not a book.

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      1 year ago

      100%

      I remember reading the communist manifesto in university twice because I was sure I must have missed something. (This was extra curricular, I was in engineering) Like it was fine, but it didn’t really live up to my expectations of reframing history by analyzing it through the lens of class.

      I only recently figured out that it wasn’t Capital. (It was before I read your post but probably within the last year, so ~15 years from when I read the manifesto).

      I haven’t gotten around to reading Capital, would it work as an audio book?