The Communist Manifesto in the Revolutionary Politics of 1848: A Critical Evaluation

by David Ireland

Book Overview

This book examines why, on the eve of the pamphlet's 175th anniversary, the Communist Manifesto left so faint an imprint on Europe's most revolutionary year of 1848, when it has had such a huge impact on posterity. The Manifesto that year misread bourgeois intentions, put too much faith in the industrial proletariat, too little in peasants, too much emphasis on the German states, and none on England. Marx and Engels preferred in 1848-9...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303099466X
• ISBN13: 9783030994662
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"