As a Chinese, the Communist Manifesto would always make my heart pump faster, the noble idea of free all mankind from exploitation and enslavement, and China is on its way to show to the world, it is indeed possible no matter how far away it is, even though my generation may no live long enough to see it, we still believe it will be realised someday.

"There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen The truth of socialist ideas has trickled through all the myths and slander.

Thanks Brian!! U.S. Congress is trying to revivie The Red Scare after all these years if you can believe it. We need more of this - keep it coming!!

Yes, every person should read it, it’s part of education, and inspiring for human rights, and moral growth. Thank you.

I read the Communist Manifesto back in 1994 and I totally agree with wanting everyone in the world to read it.

We have nothing to lose but our chain. We have a world to win. Workers of all countries, Unite!!!- A worker on the way to work

I can be listening to this all day.

That was excellent. As a sociology professor who requires my students to read the Manifesto) and excerpts of Capital in my Theory course, I could not be happier with Brian Becker’s exposition. I want to express my profound gratitude to all at Break Through news for their consistent, principled and revolutionary work.

The first time I read the Manifesto was for a class I took in grad school. I devoured it in one sitting and tuned out everything around me. It's one of the works of literature that have gotten me so transfixed. Over 20 years later, you can access it online for free. There's no excuse NOT to read it.

Comrade u r simply marvelous enhancing my faith in the pleasure of living as I hv been nurturing promoting aspiring struggling for a socialist revolution here in pakistan I'm simply proud of you as a comrade though . . . . long live socialism long live AWP pakistan

Absolutely wonderful view of the historical journey thank U!!

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE ✊🏼

Brian please do more segments like this!

Amazing historical perspective to keep in mind when reading this pamphlet. Great video!

Thank you for this lecture 🔥❤️🔥

Ordered one up. In my 50s about time to read it!!

One of the best lectures on the topic. Read it many years ago. Thank you.

Thank you so much BTN and Brian Becker for explaining simply what I always thought was an exhaustive topic . As someone who didn't take any political science courses in university I needed this. So far, I have looked at the world through a psychological and theological lens and felt I did not and do not quite understand the economic and political ways of this world, which left me feeling something was amiss. Brian Becker did such an excellent job here and I am very grateful for this episode. Thank you so much 🙏

Brilliant! ❤

I learnt so much from this video!

Loved this keep up the good work

Why americans hate communist?? It is because of their government propagandas. But in every aspect in life, every person is practicing communist, communist is the communal community, they are helping each other in every aspect. But the USA gov change it to the "lack of freedom", in communist country, they have freedom also, and the most important, freedom of safety.

Thank you. A very informative and enlightening presentation.

Love it! Keep up the great content please!

Damn why couldn’t I have gotten this perspective in highschool!

You'll be amazed by the deep analysis and precise prediction of capitalism.

Fairness and equality is the greatest struggle of mankind and still elusive

let's admit this sounds good 🌎🌍🌏✊️

wow, I never knew it was a small book. I always thought it was a really long book.

I have it , never read it, but I shall.

17:30 Appreciate Brian giving historical context as to how these class, race, gender divisions arose.

Thank you for sharing!

That was a very good presentation.

México has been having Marxist theory talks during the book fairs around the country, this last week was full of interesting discussions on the page paraleerenlibertad

Thanks guys!!

Required reading when I was a freshman at University of Illinois in History 101... 1975.

Wow! What a speech

Bless you

Super Bowl commercials could end world hunger, but....profit.

. . . and we are celebrating international women's Day tomorrow here in islamabad . . .

Lenin has also made valuable contributions to political theory and Stalin's texts are easy to digest

Hellyeah socialism for everyone not just the rich

13:57 ...and in Finland!

Awsome

A wage is just enough money to make you feel you are not a slave

Where cn we get the book ?

Also, read Lenin.

Please make a video for Lenins work and Maos work.

VIVA El Minifesto Comunista !!

Thank you for your explanations. The fact that we live in a world where considers this or that individual as owners of this or that land is by itself the source of multiple major consequential problems that will follow. Any land belongs to God or Earth or Nature not any particular human individual. I agree that socialst movements although not the only force but the most significant force that made the equal rights for women possible. Pity that the vast majority of the so called successful women, do not know about this fact, do not want to know about this fact or dishonestly deny this fact. Yes human rights should not have any gender excuses. However, considering many if not most contemporary women in leadership positions worldwide, unfortunately other than the issue of women's right, which arguably is directly associated with their own personal comfortable position, they have all other lack of capacities and mal characteristics of their men peers regarding almost every other imaginable issue. Obviously almost no talking head in the social media dares to talk about most aspects of this issue because in today's world, it would be like walking in the minefield.

I don't understand how a corporation can pay a tax. If a corporation is successful, it must pass all costs (including taxes) to the consumer. A corporation can not consume anything. A tax is paid when an item is consumed and removed from the market place; when a corporation consumes a service or good, it is a intermediate good and must passed to consumer or externalized to remain profitable and return the surplus to its stockholder. How many American corporations pay no federal income tax? In 2010 when the supreme court granted personhood to corporations, the Robert 's court gave corporations personhood, it gave the corporations representation without taxation.

Great history lesson. So many people now seem to know so little, even of recent history. Who was it that said, something like "If we don't learn from the mistakes of history, we are doomed to repeat them."

Slavery is still legal in USA and USA is the greatest exploiter of slave labor in the world still today. The fact that now slavery is allowed in prison system only is a mere bureacrautic formality.

Slavery is not illegal in the USA.

wao surkh salamunas

I hope your referring to the supreme court as the 'great institution of democracy' was sarcasm.

In the West we are starting to understand the term "Slave to the System" and what it really means.

Why communism ideals work in China? Because Chinese have always been living in a commune like society culturally since ancient times.

haha dictatorship has a negative connotation particularly here in pakistan ?

The United States was created as a country to continue slavery. The settlers created an armed struggle against England to continue slavery, and expand westward. Texas became an independent country in 1836 for the same reason, crating an armed struggle against Mexico.

the 20th century was a nice attempt to make things work for the better, now, we are back to the dark ages again (

In the last 100 years Communism imposed more humanistic impact on mankind than 450 years of capitalism - which practiced slavery, colonialism, racial segregation and mass poverty.

As long as economic inequalities arise from voluntary exchange, they cannot be unjust.

Its written like scripture and everything left up for interpretation. And marx seems inherently anti semetic. I like policies of socialist, but dont think it can be achieved. We have to have free markets to an extent. You cant put value on somthing from the labor used to make it. I think a healthy dose of central planning will be best. With other free markets policies. In my opinion. Something has to change i know that. And we dont have anything else.

Rania had Daniel Bessner recently and he talked of liberalism and communalism being antiquated ideologies based on developmentalism, a 19th century view of unlimited resources and economic expansion, which today we know is impossible. We've seen the world population triple in 50 years to unsustainable levels based on cheap energy. Peter Joseph has a belief in ephemeralization, doing more with less, but that doesn't solve infinite growth as humanity destroys the ecosystem and wars over shrinking resources. Sure, read the manifesto, but consider the era and mindset.

Two things...well three. First, the manifesto is not a book but a brochure. It did not become popular outside of France in 1849 until someone stumbled upon an old copy and started redistributing it. Finally, yes everyone should read it, but caution should be taken. It is not a theoretical treatise on Capital, Communism, or Marx's economic theories on either. This is simply a call to arms during the 1849 French Revolution and ONLY that. This brochure should not be taken as an alternative to learning Marxian Theory or to avoid reading Marx's more relevant work, Capital. It is not also not a toolkit to realize a communist society or a rule book to how Communism should function. For that, you have to look beyond Marx and Engles as they never defined Communism. So, yes by all means, read this brochure but you have to take what I layer out into account.

The Bible is also a body of historical texts, and is also literature. I understand the distinction you are wanting to make, but it's based on false bourgeois categories of religion and secular. While believed to be holy and the sole authority for theology in the protestant traditions, scripture isn't meant to be read in an unquestioning or uncritical way either, neither ignoring its historical contexts nor its historicity. With Marx and Engels the debt to modern scholarship is obvious; we know of and can read their working notes and the other authors they reference or quote. With scripture it is much harder to discern the authors' sources, but not the marks of the process of writing and editing and collation, which adds to their historicity. And of course scripture was a source for Marx and Engels, from their own educations and study at home and at church during their lives.

Where was Breakthrough News at Rage Against the War Rally? You call yourself socialist? I think not.

This man needs to do a bit more research about 'slavery'.

This guy is a demagogue...

35 year old here born in Belarus. I read all works of big names in Socialism and Communism. At around age of 12 I picked up a book "How the world came to be" and began searching for answers. My search forever grounded my believes against Socialism and Communism and I will never support it.

It took guns to win the revolution, yet the new Chinses gov after the revolution was won, outlawed the guns.

What does Socialism have to do with communism...... Socialism is for the people by the people....and then there's yours

I read the Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital, and the Theses on Feuerbach nearly a decade ago. I was not impressed. Karl Marx was an ok sociologist but a terrible economist, far inferior to predecessors like Adam Smith and David Ricardo. His "Scientific socialism" is pure pseudoscience or scientism. There is far more value to be gained from reading the works of Henry George.