> [!summary] Progressive Summary # Structured Notes ## Definitions ## Chapter Summaries ### Introduction The Community Manifesto was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848. ### Chapter 1 - On the Manifesto and the Manifesto Form Manifesto (1969) by Agnes Denes: - ![[Manifesto Denes.pdf]] > The Communist Manifesto is lavish with language and its play. It’s full of ghosts and sorcerers and clothes made of cobwebs and rent cloth and gravediggers, and whatever else can be said about such metaphors, and pace Anderson, there’s nothing ‘mere’ about them. Chosen to express reality and politics more vividly than would be possible in their absence, they are constitutive and perspicacious – and persuasive. ### The Communist Manifesto in its Time The French Revolution (1789-1794) challenged feudal values of hierarchy, stability and obedience with its own ascendant values of fraternity, egality and liberty. But as CLR James pointed out, slavery was the economic basis of the French Revolution. # Quotes # References Julian Hanna, The Manifesto Handbook: https://www.everand.com/read/440521998/The-Manifesto-Handbook-95-Theses-on-an-Incendiary-Form [Berman 1982 - All That Is Solid Melts into Air](zotero://select/items/1_WBENMDTZ) Ludovico Silva, Marx's Literary Style: https://www.everand.com/read/633348105/Marx-s-Literary-Style [James 1989 - The black Jacobins: Toussaint l'Ouverture and the San Domingo revolution](zotero://select/items/1_5WP33VFV)