Leftist Reading: The Communist Manifesto, Part Three

Leftist Reading

Episode 3:
This week’s reading is the Communist Manifesto, part 3 of 3
by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

Available online here: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/31193

Next week we’ll start reading “What is Marxism All About?”
by FIST, Fight Imperialism Stand Together.

Part 1
Introduction
I Bourgeois and Proletarians

Part 2
II Proletarians and Communists

[Part 3 – This Week]
III Socialist and Communist Literature – 00:43
(i) Reactionary Socialism – 00:48
(a) Feudal Socialism – 00:50
(b) Petty Bourgeois Socalism – 04:14
(c) German or “True” Socialism – 07:16
(ii) Conservative or Bourgeois Socialism – 13:26
(iii) Critical-Utopian Socialism and Communism – 16:17
IV Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties – 22:44

Footnotes:
1. 01:24
Not the English Restoration 1660-1689, but the French Restoration 1814- 1830.

2. 03:40
This applies chiefly to Germany where the landed aristocracy and squirearchy have large portions of their estates cultivated for their own account by stewards, and are moreover, extensive beet-root sugar manufacturers and distillers of potato spirits. The wealthier British aristocracy are, as yet, rather above that; but they, too, know how to make up for declining rents by lending their names to floaters of more or less shady joint-stock companies.

3. 21:56
Phalansteres were socialist colonies on the plan of Charles Fourier; Icaria was the name given by Cabet to his Utopia and, later on, to his American Communist colony.

4. 23:19
The party then represented in parliament by Ledru-Rollin, in literature by Louis Blanc, in the daily press by the Reforme. The name of Social-Democracy signified, with these its inventors, a section of the Democratic or Republican party more or less tinged with Socialism.