reading (Communist Manifesto)

I took a quick dip into political history and read the Communist Manifesto. The first bit was the most interesting. It shows good insight into historical trends, the growth of markets, the shifting of political and economic power and the beginnings of globalism. They couldn't have envisioned how far these trends would go. If they had that kind of foresight they'd have put Nostradamus out of business. But they were very good at putting the historical pieces together and coming up with important aspects, so important in fact that they've continued through today.

Much of the remainder of the work suffers from poor logic. This could be because the authors were trying to reduce down long involved theories into paragraphs or they could be old fashioned logical errors. Either way, the chain of cause and effect that leads from point to point often has large links missing.

The other thing that is largely missing from this work is how things are going to work once the great revolution is accomplished. Again, that may be left for other works, this is a brief, not a book. But if you're writing a "this is who we are, this is what we're about" you probably want to include at least a bit of the "this is where we are going."

Oh, if John Hancock and company had written like Marx and Engels I'd probably be writing to my MP about the taxes on tea.

5. Marx & Engels "The Manifesto of the Communist Party"

I may never leave my computer again...