{"product_id":"9783030994631","title":"The Communist Manifesto in the Revolutionary Politics of 1848 A Critical Evaluation","description":"\u003ch3\u003eMarx, Engels, and Marxisms\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch1\u003eThe Communist Manifesto in the Revolutionary Politics of 1848\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eA Critical Evaluation\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDavid Ireland\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eHistory \/ Europe \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines why, on the eve of the pamphlet’s 175\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e anniversary, the \u003ci\u003eCommunist Manifesto \u003c\/i\u003eleft so faint an imprint on Europe’s most revolutionary year of 1848, when it has had such a huge impact on posterity. The \u003ci\u003eManifesto\u003c\/i\u003e that year misread bourgeois intentions, put too much faith in the industrial proletariat, too little in peasants, too much emphasis on the German states, and none on England. Marx and Engels preferred in 1848–9 to focus on the middle-class \u003ci\u003eNeue Rheinische Zeitung\u003c\/i\u003e, declining to galvanise working-class groups whose leadership they had actively sought. They neglected to return swiftly to the German states in their crucial 1848 ‘March days’. The \u003ci\u003eManifesto\u003c\/i\u003e’s programme barely overlapped with contemporary campaigners or comparative pamphleteers, or the replacement \u003ci\u003eDemands of the Communist Party in Germany\u003c\/i\u003e. The book considers the consequences of Marx opting to write the \u003ci\u003eManifesto\u003c\/i\u003e alone in January 1848. It also questions the source and significance of the pamphlet’s most memorialised phrase, ‘the spectre of Communism’, whether it was written for the ‘working men of all countries’ addressed in its finale, and whether Marx and Engels regarded the \u003ci\u003eManifesto\u003c\/i\u003e as highly in 1848, as they undoubtedly did in later life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eDavid Ireland\u003c\/b\u003e is an independent historian based in London, UK. He studied German and French at Keble College, Oxford, and more recently did an MA in Political Thought and Intellectual History at UCL\/Queen Mary University of London\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e09 August 2022\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer International Publishing\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783030994631\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e278\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer International Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52321417265292,"sku":"9783030994631","price":143.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783030994631","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}