For For students and readers who want to understand and test The Communist Manifesto through dialogue; not for readers wanting economic or historical scholarship.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
4 of 5strongly recommended
For the researcher
3 of 5worth your time
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
Socrates cross-examines Marx about The Communist Manifesto.
How it proceeds
Philosophic5 of 5
Scriptural0 of 5
Experiential0 of 5
Sociological5 of 5
Historical2 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
Published by Ignatius Press, a volume of the Socrates Meets series of dialogues in which Socrates cross-examines a modern thinker about one short classic. Here he questions Karl Marx about The Communist Manifesto, on freedom and oppression, history and change, property, education, women and the family.