The Communist Manifesto - Terry Eagleton - Marxism 2011

[SeedsofJoy]

I love how Eagleton, an avowed Marxist, makes sure to plug his book for purchase all throughout the lecture - which is of course, a capitalist venture at it's very heart.

[williamsimpson12]

@SeedsofJoy I'm sure the irony isn't lost on him



[spudinho1]

Terry Eagleton combines serious learning with lots of good humour (unlike some of the commentaries below) and represents the best sort of democratic Marxism - the very opposite of Stalinist / North Korean pseudo-marxism. At a time when unbridled capitalism is in danger of destroying the planet, we need to remember that there is a radical alternative ...

[sparky6952]

if you ran this country it would resemble North Korea.The british people know this.hence they chose to vote in a conservative govt.The workers did not want labour either

[TheDalitis8]

@sparky6952 That is like saying that all capitalist countries should resemble Zaire...

[robertk1968]

Socialism = Communism

[MrVoulezvous]

Could you please repost this without the stupid film-school intro?

[AJourneymanWayfarer]

Part I: If I were to filter The Manifesto through the lens of literary criticism, I might start by calling it a work of speculative fiction, an ironic adult fairy tale or satiric ghost story, the narrative of which recounts how the mad scientist Dr. Bourgeois and his deformed man-servant Kapital unwittingly call into being the monster Proletariat. At first small and disembodied, this spirit only grows and becomes more corporeal with every effort its creators take to starve the life out of it.

[AJourneymanWayfarer]

Part II: However, as befits any modernist myth-making, the story is given to us uncompleted, its readers openly advised to fashion their own fitting conclusion. Such a reading has the advantage of defending The Manifesto/ against charges of false prophecy yet preserving the possibility of its being reclassified in the libraries of the future as a work of history.

[DERBYCFC]

tl; dw

[cassdotcom]

@DERBYCFC in summary then:

workers of the world unite, you have nothing to lose but your chains!

[DERBYCFC]

@cassdotcom How original