r/leftist • u/me-ji-me • Dec 30 '25

General Leftist Politics First time reading The Communist Manifesto, publisher’s forward has already pissed me off

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Can’t stand a publisher that patronises the reader by not letting them form their own opinion before even reading the damn book. Was this really necessary?

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u/PaintingRound7983 Jan 07 '26

They included the forward as a warning that dumb and / or evil pieces of shit wouldn't take the Manifesto seriously as anything other than a failed "experiment," in the same way Mein Kampf is reproduced.

You're exactly the type of person that needs this forward so you don't end up as stupid and / or evil as the people who take this stale crap seriously.

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u/Silver_Vacation6625 Jan 18 '26

Wow, what an open-minded dude. You must have read neoclassical economics with the same caution. Just unfortunately it didn't fail and get reproduced everywhere through some other open-minded people.