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---------------------------- Original Message ------------------------ Subject: BOOK: The Communist Manifesto From: "Phil Gasper" <pgasper@NDNU.EDU> Date: Mon, October 17, 2005 1:42 am ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Apologies for the shameless self-promotion. --PG New from Haymarket Books http://haymarketbooks.org/ THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels edited by Phil Gasper Here, at last, is an authoritative introduction to history's most important political document, with the full text of The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels. This beautifully organized and presented edition of The Communist Manifesto is fully annotated, with clear historical references and explication, additional related texts, and a glossary that brings the text to life for students, as well as the general reader. Since it was first written in 1848, the Manifesto has been translated into more languages than any other modern text. It has been banned, censored, burned, and declared "dead." But year after year, the text only grows more influential, remaining required reading in courses on philosophy, politics, sociology, economics, and history. The New Yorker recently described Karl Marx as "The Next Thinker" for our era. This book shows readers why. "Phil Gasper's new edition of The Communist Manifesto comes at a critical moment in world history, when a global capitalism which Marx described with amazing accuracy a hundred and fifty years ago shows all the signs of disarray that he predicted. What Gasper does is to remind us how relevant the Manifesto is to our world today. His Introduction and Afterword are useful guides to the Manifesto and to its importance in our time. His notes give us fascinating tidbits of information which a thoughtful reader of the Manifesto will find extremely valuable. Gasper brings alive one of the great classics of modern political thought, an indispensable addition to anyone's library." -Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States "The more those in power reject and ignore Marx and his ideas, the more the world comes to resemble the barbaric social system Marx predicted capitalism was in the process of becoming. Therefore, Marx's ideas are becoming more and more relevant to understanding what we see before us. This new edition of The Communist Manifesto, with its excellent informative notes and commentaries, enables the reader to appreciate this document both historically and theoretically, both in relation to its own time and in relation to the realities around us." -Allen Wood, Stanford University PHIL GASPER, editor of The Communist Manifesto, is a professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame de Namur University in California. He writes extensively on politics and the philosophy of science, and is a frequent contributor to CounterPunch. ISBN 1-931859-25-6 paper $12 180 pages October 25, 2005 Contact: Julie Fain julie@haymarketbooks.org Haymarket Books P.O. Box 180165 Chicago, IL 60618 Phone: 773-583-7884 http://www.haymarketbooks.org Bulk discounts available. Fax desk/exam copy requests to 773-583-6144 Bookstores call Consortium, 800-283-3572.
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