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OnDaFence 36M/44M
44267 posts
2/20/2018 5:33 pm

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3/3/2018 10:35 am

170 Years Ago



On February 21, 1848, the Communist Manifesto was anonymously published by the Workers' Educational Association (Communistischer Arbeiterbildungsverein) at Bishopsgate in the City of London. Written in German, the 23-page pamphlet was titled Manifest der kommunistischen Partei and had a dark-green cover. It was reprinted three times and serialised in the Deutsche Londoner Zeitung, a newspaper for German émigrés. On 4 March, one day after the serialisation in the Zeitung began. Two weeks later, around 20 March, a thousand copies of the Manifesto reached Paris, and from there to Germany in early April.



In April–May the text was corrected for printing and punctuation mistakes; Marx and Engels would use this 30-page version as the basis for future editions of the Manifesto. Although the Manifesto's prelude announced that it was "to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages", the initial printings were only in German. Polish and Danish translations soon followed the German original in London, and by the end of 1848, a Swedish translation was published with a new title—The Voice of Communism: Declaration of the Communist Party. In June–November 1850 the Manifesto of the Communist Party was published in English for the first time when George Julian Harney serialised Helen Macfarlane's translation in his Chartist magazine The Red Republican.



Following the October Revolution of 1917 that swept the Vladimir Lenin-led Bolsheviks to power in Russia, the world's first socialist state was founded explicitly along Marxist lines. The Soviet Union, which Bolshevik Russia would become a part of, was a one-party state under the rule of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Unlike their mass-based counterparts of the Second International, the CPSU and other Leninist parties like it in the Third International expected their members to know the classic works of Marx, Engels and Lenin. Further, party leaders were expected to base their policy decisions on Marxist-Leninist ideology. Therefore works such as the Manifesto were required reading for the party rank-and-file.



From an obscure 23-page pamphlet whose authors wanted to initially stay anonymous, the world plunged into a political quagmire with realms and influences felt around the world from mighty empires, short lived despotes, to jungle insurgencies. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' theories about the nature of society and politics, that in their own words, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles". It also features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism.




OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/20/2018 5:35 pm

We hear the same themes from our lamestream media and lefty politicians... Take the rich people's money and give it to the poor.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/20/2018 5:37 pm

Lenin & Associats did just that to Russia. Took all the rich peoples money.... They hocked the Czar's jewels and soon found out it wouldn't go very far.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/20/2018 5:39 pm

The Communists stripped Russia bare selling ever ounce of gold, silver and jewels to make Communism work.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/20/2018 5:42 pm

80 years of the Communist plan the socialist system collapsed of it own weight. Workers, Army, and the very technicians that propped up the system going months unpaid by a centralized socialist state.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/20/2018 8:28 pm

    Quoting  :

Who could ever believe a 23 page pamphlet by obscure authors could ever evolve into this world wide social agenda.


Hungr4Yungr 75M
5766 posts
2/20/2018 9:00 pm

It is amazingly sad how easily people can be brainwashed when they are looking for change. A good example is the result of the last US election. It is interesting to note that Russia played a hand in the end result of the that election, and is poised to again exert its influence on the upcoming midterms.


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/20/2018 9:39 pm

    Quoting Hungr4Yungr:
    It is amazingly sad how easily people can be brainwashed when they are looking for change. A good example is the result of the last US election. It is interesting to note that Russia played a hand in the end result of the that election, and is poised to again exert its influence on the upcoming midterms.
We can only hope that the Russians do. Putin stands firmly against the borderless multinational corporations who candidate tried to ties us down and strip us of the last vestiges of Capitalism.


jrodd 65M
4396 posts
2/21/2018 1:41 am

So whats new about the Russians subverting the elections the cold war has always been in effect since the 1950s ? The rich has always been parasites to the poor , criminals who still to this day underhandingly rip off society using the influence of the government to protect them with unjust laws and controls to keep the elites plundering the masses .Now the elites have become so powerful they became global pretending to be the champions for the left while initiating further control for world domination.That when you actually see the democrats(phoney left wing) are even more militantly right winged than your so called puppet state republicans!Suckers in the two party system have only two fascists right wings to decide upon during voting time.One that pretends to be a left wing .Corporates care less now about which one wins they are not accountable to any government they are global .


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/21/2018 9:54 am

    Quoting jrodd:
    So whats new about the Russians subverting the elections the cold war has always been in effect since the 1950s ? The rich has always been parasites to the poor , criminals who still to this day underhandingly rip off society using the influence of the government to protect them with unjust laws and controls to keep the elites plundering the masses .Now the elites have become so powerful they became global pretending to be the champions for the left while initiating further control for world domination.That when you actually see the democrats(phoney left wing) are even more militantly right winged than your so called puppet state republicans!Suckers in the two party system have only two fascists right wings to decide upon during voting time.One that pretends to be a left wing .Corporates care less now about which one wins they are not accountable to any government they are global .
What's happened our democraps are indignant that the Russian tried to influence our election! YET $140 MILLION from the Saudis to crooked hillary is NOT trying to influence an election???? Also Obozo sent money & people to try to influence the Israeli election...and NO ONE remembers that stupid fuckers Brexit speech that handed Nigel Farage the vote in the UK. Maybe we need to hand Canadian ballots it they live within 100 miles of our border since half th illegal Mexicans voted in the last election.


jrodd 65M
4396 posts
2/22/2018 3:55 am

Yes terrible swamp monsters Clinton ,Obama and the Bushes.And what about the Chinese they are heavy into industrial espionage? And I bet their influences are even much greater than some russkie with a vodka bottle at a computer terminal .LOL


OnDaFence 36M/44M

2/22/2018 2:27 pm

    Quoting jrodd:
    Yes terrible swamp monsters Clinton ,Obama and the Bushes.And what about the Chinese they are heavy into industrial espionage? And I bet their influences are even much greater than some russkie with a vodka bottle at a computer terminal .LOL
Gotta laugh at Crooked Hillary who spent hundres of millions of dollars screaming that a few drunk Russians with a few million bucks brought her down with a few internet postings... not much of a campaign if you ask me.


jrodd 65M
4396 posts
2/24/2018 2:37 am


OnDaFence 36M/44M

3/3/2018 10:35 am