THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF OKLAHOMA RELEASES A NEW, STYLIZED EDITION OF MARX & ENGELS CLASSIC: THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

At first glance, it looks like a video game cartridge from the early 1980s, but this is edition is certain no game. Designers with the Communist Party in Oklahoma have produced a lively new edition of Marx & Engels’ classic revolutionary treatise, The Manifesto of the Community Part, more commonly referred to as The Communist Manifesto.

             While some purists have been critical of the new edition, offering criticism that the design trivializes the  importance of the text, others—but the designer responded by saying, “Marxism is a living science, It changes with the times—or, to be more accurate, the forms change, but the power of the revolutionary content stays the same. In fact, I would argue that—no matter what cover you slap on the Manifesto, it will always maintain its place of importance in the revolutionary canon.”

The text is described in more detail Editorial Preface:

“THE “MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY” was written by Marx and Engels as the Communist League’s programme on the instruction of its Second Congress (London, November 29-December 8, 1847),..This edition includes the two earlier versions of the Manifesto, namely the draft “Communist Confession of Faith” and “The Principles of Communism,” both authored by Engels, as well as the letter from Engels to Marx which poses the idea of publishing a “manifesto,” rather than a catechism. The Manifesto addressed itself to a mass movement with historical significance, no

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The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels remains perhaps the single most influential piece of political literature since Thomas Paine published his work, Common Sense, in 1776. After the fall of the Soviet Union, the first attempt by Communists to control a single nation-state, many questioned the validity of Marx’s critique of capitalism. But today, in the present period of economic stagnation, political upheaval and global warfare, the ideas represented in the Manifesto, as expressed by Marx, seem as relevant as ever.

Copies can be obtained at:

www.communistpartyok.org