K. Marx, Frederic L. Bender, Samuel Moore, Gareth Stedman Jones, Friedrich Engels - The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition

Pros: unbiased opinion of a system of goverment,masterfully written

Cons: a little difficult to read

Review: Karl Marx changed the world when he and Friedrich Engels wrote this tract. The Communist Manifesto is an unbiased telling of the aims and beliefs of the communist party. The authors write with such skill and tact never letting it show that they are doing...

Pros: Equality for all

Cons: Socioeconomic Division

The Bottom Line: Whether you believe in the concept of communism or not, it is important to educate oneself. This book is a remarkable piece of literature.

Review: There are a few truths that even diehard capitalists cannot refute. Simply, there are 45 million people in the US who suffer the indignity of being without health care. That's a staggering figure to attempt to comprehend. The old suffer because they...

Pros: It's amazing reading

Cons: kinda hard to understand the first time you read

Review: With only around 2,000 words, Marx and Engels changed The view of milions of people. they changed the world as we know it, literally.

It took me about 5 times to read it AND understand it, and every time you discover something new and totally...

Pros: Powerful, gripping, at times universal, helps gain and understanding of society

Cons: Long winded, rough, overly specific, at times even childish

The Bottom Line: Everyone should read it. Just be preapared to skim more than a few long winded pages.

Review: In the whole course of Human History, only a few books of political and economic thought can be said to have been truly influential. Plato's Republic, Hobbe's Leviathan, Locke's Treatises…all of these books in one war or another have fundamentally ...

Pros: Intelligent, well-written, accurate, perceptive

Cons: Reaches the wrong conclusion

The Bottom Line: A solid interpretation of history, a weak, idealistic set of predictions for the future.

Review: "Communist" is one of those words usually lumped - in the U.S. - with such other unfavorable words as "murderer" and "arsonist." It's a sad relic of the Cold "War" and a distinct lack of intellectualism on the part of the majority of the citizens of...

Pros: Revolutionary, POints in Logical order, historic

Cons: wordy

Review: Although it is often noted as one of the most revolutionary books of all time, The Communist Manifesto is not only revolutionary, it is the most well researched, unbiased opinions of the history of the classes in existence. He writes from the perspective...

Pros: none

Cons: Inherently flawed philosophy

Review: If any book can be said to have influenced the world more than the Bible, it is the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx. In the little over 100 years since Communism became a viable opinion more people have been influenced by it that any other governmental...

Pros: Good historical synopsis

Cons: Conclusions have been proven wrong; Reading is a little tough at times

The Bottom Line: This book, although undeniably flawed in its conclusions and predictions, remains a classic volume of economic and political thought.

Review: Karl Marx is a man whose name invokes strong emotions in people, ranging from cautious curiosity to outright loathing for the political theory that he introduced to the world. This German- born political and economic philosopher wrote many books in his...