No but have read up on Marxism. I believe the government has the reponsiblity of controlling a lot of the peoples things around them and protecting them from those who would abuse power. I don't think government should own everything but to regulate prices those who are making products can charge for them. I do believe in private business, land, and homeownership. Don't believe business can charge as much as some is willing to !

In communism everyone but the ruling elite is poor. Why would you read a book about that? Look at the difference between North and South Korea. One is hard line communist whose people live in poverty and are starving and the other is a free prosperous capitalist country. At night the South is brightly lit while the North is almost totally dark except for a few lights at the capital. There’s really no good reason to read the communist manifesto unless your trying to figure out why people turn to communism.

Read it. I see no value in Communism. If we were intelligent, unemotional, and moral, it would probably work well. But we humans are nothing like that.

Yeah. Brief summary: idealism fails and becomes despotism. Oh, wait, that's reality.
Basically it says every one does equal work for an equal share.

I recommend an economics textbook.

I remember studying it when I went to college in one of the political science courses. The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx and another German philosopher in the 1840's. They advocated changes for the common people. Such as private land ownership, public education, fair taxes, better working conditions and ending child labor. Pretty everything the republiKKKans hate.
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The Communists Manifesto is just another idea of government. Every government has failed! If everyone was good people the communist idea of government would work.

Studied political science and political philosophy at university, so yes, along with Marxism, not to be lumped in with Communism, in detail, aspects of which have influenced my thinking to this day. The more I see the world going, and the globalised weaponised capitalism that has evolved since the 70s, the more relevant I find aspects of Marxism, even more than when I was a young buck Uni student back in the 70s.

Yes, meant to support Social Democrats and the working class

Yes. I have read it, as well as DAS KAPITAL. The Manifesto was a brief rationale and call to action by Marx. It has some appeal, but it hides the true nature of communism. If you really want to understand communism, the ONLY book to read is THE NEW CLASS by Milovan Djilas. Djilas was an ardent communist and served as the vice president of Yugoslavia under Tito. He came to understand the true nature of communism and became disillusioned with it. The book analyzes the true nature of communism and how it is a totally flawed total system ideology which is inevitably totalitarian. He served 20 years in Yugoslav prison for writing the book. The book is the best analysis of communism ever written.

Yes, you will find it annoying as now it is mostly an historical document. Nothing too Earth shattering in their though. Just worker rights... kinda stuff we all mostly agree with. We've been indoctrinated to see it is abnormal to think this way but despite that, we still mostly do.

No Shortcuts. I read it on 1969-1970. It is a matter of Respect for those that became before me. We can talk about after you have done your deed.