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Thanks for posting this so I didn't have to. I think if contemporary dialogue about Marx focused more on Capital and less on The Communist Manifesto we'd have

Thanks for posting this so I didn't have to. I think if contemporary dialogue about Marx focused more on Capital and less on The Communist Manifesto we'd have less confusion about what Marx was trying to say. I think it's perfectly okay to agree with his concept of dialectical materialism and also disagree with the statist solution put forth in the manifesto.

gmtx725 6y ago
Exactly, the communist manifesto is a short throwaway propaganda pamphlet that is for some reason held up as the apex of his work. Whereas Das Kapital, a mammoth 3-volume serious academic undertaking, and his real magnum opus, is ignored.