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Walter Rodney In East Africa: The Dar School And The Kenya/Tanzania, Capitalism/Socialism Dichotomy, Jesse Benjamin
Walter Rodney In East Africa: The Dar School And The Kenya/Tanzania, Capitalism/Socialism Dichotomy, Jesse Benjamin
Jesse Benjamin
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The Historical Background Of The Communist Manifesto, George R. Boyer
The Historical Background Of The Communist Manifesto, George R. Boyer
George R. Boyer
[Excerpt] The Manifesto of the Communist Party, published 150 years ago in London in February 1848, is one of the most influential and widely-read documents of the past two centuries. The historian A. J. P. Taylor (1967, p. 7) has called it a "holy book," and contends that because of it, "everyone thinks differently about politics and society." And yet, despite its enormous influence in the 20th century, the Manifesto is very much a period piece, a document of what was called the "hungry" 1840s. It is hard to imagine it being written in any other decade of the 19th …