the communist manifesto barnes and noble

In fact, the world's political systems, including our own, pay Marx the ultimate compliment: His ideas are so deeply embedded that we don't notice they're there. While it's true that Marxism - as practiced in the Soviet Union, Albania and points east - has indeed vanished, Marx still wields considerable power. But the fact remains: For decades, it was the leading intellectual paradigm on the continent and had a huge influence among broad elements of the American intelligentsia.

In a lecture at the American Enterprise Institute earlier this month, he said, 'I shouldn't even mention Marxism it is too easy a target. Typical is my own colleague Charles Murray. He's beloved by the deconstructionist English departments of America's most expensive colleges, and politicians, journalists and social scientists happily dance on his grave. Nine years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Karl Marx, with a fuzzy beard like pop-doctor Andrew Weill, has become a cuddly, kitschy, innocuous object of fun, nostalgia and irony. It's cloth-bound, with luxuriously heavy pages, a red ribbon for marking pages, a cover painting, in socialist-realism style, by the trendy New York artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid, and an exhortation on the back: 'Workers of the world, unite!' Barnes & Noble, reports Publisher's Weekly, will promote it heavily at the cash register: communism as an impulse purchase. Has it come to this? In celebration of the 150th anniversary of 'The Communist Manifesto,' Verso Press has announced publication - on May Day, naturally - of what it calls an 'upscale, sybarite's edition' of the famous revolutionary tract by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

The communist manifesto barnes and noble