Issue 10

March-June, 1998: The Communist Manifesto and the Asian economic crisis

Links 10: Editor's introduction

‘All that is solid melts into air’: The ‘Communist Manifesto’ and the Asian economic crisis

The 150th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto, falling this year, will doubtless call forth torrents of comment from the entire intellectual and political spectrum. This “dated over-reaction to capitalism’s phase of early industrialisation” will have its pointlessness proved for the millionth time. And this, no doubt, while special editions are already in preparation to meet the inexplicably

The relevance of the Communist Manifesto today

By John Percy

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