{"product_id":"the-communist-manifesto-the-april-theses-9781784786908","title":"The Communist Manifesto \/ The April Theses","description":"\u003cp\u003eA new beautiful edition of the Communist Manifesto  combined with Lenins key revolutionary tract  It was the 1917 Russian Revolution that transformed the scale of The Communist Manifesto  making it the key text for socialists everywhere. On the centenary of this upheaval  this volume pairs Marx and Engelss most famous work with Lenins own revolutionary manifesto  The April Theses  which lifts politics from the level of everyday banalities to become an art-form.  The Communist Manifesto  Oppressor and oppressed  stood in constant opposition to one another  carried on an uninterrupted  now hidden  now open fight  a fight that each time ended  either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large  or in the common ruin of the contending classes.  The Communist Manifesto is the most influential political text ever writtenfew other calls to action have stirred and changed the world. Now  in the wake of a punishing financial crisis  in a world built on regimes of permanent austerity  each rife with horrific disparities in wealth  this short book remains a reference point for those trying to understand the transformations being wrought by capitalism and its concomitant forms of exploitation.  This centenary edition includes a new introduction by Tariq Ali  contextualizing the periodthe eve of the 1848 revolutionsin which Marx and Engels penned their masterpiece and argues that it desperately needs a successor.  The April Theses  The chain breaks first at its weakest link.  In Lenins April Theses  written in 1917  he presented his ten analytical maxims  outlining a programme to accelerate and complete the revolution that had begun in February of that year. Now  on the revolutions centenary  Verso presents them here alongside Lenins Letters from Afar  written in exile that March and addressed to his comrades in Petrograd. In these missives  he offers advice and instruction to comrades pushing ahead with their ideals in the aftermath of the February revolution.  The introduction by Tariq Ali traces The Communist Manifestos influence on Lenins April Theses  the text that brought the manifesto to life and made it one of the most widely read books in history. For Lenin  writes Ali  it was the birth of imperialism  the legitimate offspring of capitalism  that signalled the end of the latters progressive capacities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45960443134005,"sku":"ByrdShop_178478690X","price":56.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781784786908.jpg?v=1788287306","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-communist-manifesto-the-april-theses-9781784786908","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}