The Communist Manifesto Illustrated (2010, Red Quill)
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Just spotted The Communist Manifesto Illustrated (2010, Red Quill) which looks like a great book to appeal to younger readers and graphic novel fans.
Toronto Sun report
http://www.torontosun.com/news/weird/2010/12/29/16703416.html
Youtube trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCnx96laCv0
Official site
Here’s the 1934 illustrated version of ‘Capital’http://graphicwitness.org/contemp/marxtitle.htm
http://www.theecosocialist.com/1/post/2012/08/marx-meets-manga-japanese-publishing-sensation-now-available-in-english.html
Also Marx’s Das Kapital For Beginners, Michael Wayne. Illustrated by Sungyoon Choijondwhite wrote:The original Japanese manga was reviewed in the July 2009 Socialist Standard here (scroll down to the last item):http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/socialist-standard/2000s/2009/no-1259-july-2009/book-reviews
Quote:Also Marx’s Das Kapital For Beginners, Michael Wayne. Illustrated by Sungyoon ChoiThis is reviewed in the September Standard out tomorrow or Monday.
The 1930s one is fascinating – never knew this existed!
Hud955 wrote:Wow! I want one!Well you can have one!www.abebooks.co.uk have them from various independent booksellers (this one seems to be all from the US).Starting price £130.48 + shipping of £10.77. Cheap at half the price?
Some members may be a little offended as the Communist Manifesto advocates reforms
TheOldGreyWhistle wrote:Some members may be a little offended as the Communist Manifesto advocates reformsActually, strictly speaking, the 10 points in the Communist Manifesto were not reforms to be implemented within capitalism but measures to be adopted in what we can now see was the highly unlikely (not to say impossible) event of the Communist League of Germany winning political control there in 1848. The criticism that could be made of them (besides being based on an unrealistic, and unrealisable, assumption) was that they amounted to a programme for state capitalism even if under democratic control. Maybe that was all socialists could advocate as the way forward when conditions were not yet ripe for socialism. Fortunately we are now living in 2012 not 1848 and that dilemma has long ceased to exist.
ALB wrote:TheOldGreyWhistle wrote:Some members may be a little offended as the Communist Manifesto advocates reformsActually, strictly speaking, the 10 points in the Communist Manifesto were not reforms to be implemented within capitalism but measures to be adopted in what we can now see was the highly unlikely (not to say impossible) event of the Communist League of Germany winning political control there in 1848. The criticism that could be made of them (besides being based on an unrealistic, and unrealisable, assumption) was that they amounted to a programme for state capitalism even if under democratic control. Maybe that was all socialists could advocate as the way forward when conditions were not yet ripe for socialism. Fortunately we are now living in 2012 not 1848 and that dilemma has long ceased to exist.
What changed between 1848 and 1904?
TheOldGreyWhistle wrote:What changed between 1848 and 1904?The development of a capability to produce an abundance of wealth?
HollyHead wrote:TheOldGreyWhistle wrote:What changed between 1848 and 1904?The development of a capability to produce an abundance of wealth?
If socialism wasn’t possible in 1848 why advocate it?
Because, one day (quite soon) it would be – once the powers of production had been raised to an adequate level. In the meantime other measures could be taken (so M and E argued) hence the interim arrangements proposed in section three of the Manifesto.
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