The Communist Manifesto

The quality of the ebook is quite good as far as I am concerned, but the ideas provided by it should be alarming to every free American around. The author talks of history as a class struggle and speaks of class as if it were caste. I disagree first of all with his take on history and secondly with his take on class. I have a multitude of other points in which I disagree with him, but space prevents me from writing every issue. The book is free. Read it for yourself and see a promotion of free love, violent revolution, and the abolition of morals and religion.

I'm glad I read this; I disagree with it thoroughly. Why is human nature completely disregarded? Destroying all political, social, and economic structures won't remove an individual's hopes, ambitions, or greed. Marx and Engels ask me to give up my beliefs about family, country, religion, freedom, and justice, for a completely new, idealized form of perfect equality. That's an incredible risk I'm unwilling to take.

Communism was born out of sincere intentions of the proletariat, who has managed to rummage through poverty, to distinguish himself from others of his class and try to find an effective single-pill solution to the ghastly poverty he once found himself in. Sadly, until now, the issue of general poverty and inequality annhialation, it seems, is not so much a question of government, but a personal one as it will command us to give to the most needy in society. We all know that while most "taking" is a common crime, "refusing to give" is purely legal, encouraged, and as a matter of fact crux to most basic forms of any education. Until we learn to share as a matter of due course and survival, it would seem that all aspirations of man, however wonderful and seemingly noble and all-encompassing and God-considering, shall always hit the ceiling of the entrapmemt of a society still mired in inividual self-interest, and these aspirations scatter and fall into piesces with reckless abandon.