The Communist Manifesto

In this People’s Episode of the BroCast, we review the book that launched a thousand conservative backlashes: the surprisingly sedate and measured Communist Manifesto, written by Marx and Engles. Written in a time of rapid and seemingly gathering reform, the Manifesto became the soundtrack to the revolutions of 1948-49, and had far reaching consequences, from the American Civil War to the Russian Revolution. Yet for all that, it’s a terribly misunderstood piece of political writing that most people never bother to read. If they did, as we discover in this episode, they might find that many of its arguments remain as vital today as the day they were written.