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Review: Marx, Karl, and Friedrich Engels. The communist manifesto. Penguin, 2002.

This book was written at the end of the “age of revolution”. European society was witnessing unprecedented success at its disposal as the industrial production reached astronomical figures, cities grown gigantically, the population was more than any epoch, and the scientific achievements were prodigious.  It was the age, when Prof. Wheatstone of London was planning to connect England with France through submarine electric telegraph. The publication of books in England, USA, France and Germany alone reached in five figures. Millions of people for transport used railway line and means of communication were improving at flashing speed. This was the epoch of the romantic idea of progress. I use the word ‘romantic’ to show the perpetual denial of the existence of ugliest, unhappiest, grim and stinking world parallel to the romantic microcosm of technological and social progress. Engle and Marx, in this work, destroyed the veneer of European civilisation to present an idea, where the r...

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