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A Spectre, Haunting: On The Communist Manifesto

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What Are Some of the Main Criticisms of the Manifesto That You Explore in Your Book?

i think for marxist in general to be self-critical to engage honestly and in good faith with possible weak points in our traditions or in the text that we laud um. spend some time in in your book talking about some criticisms  and i quite strongly think that most of the elements where you will often hear it accused of inevitableism is a very simplistic criticism. The two things that have loomed probably most large for me are an insufficient gendering and racing of classUm and that's a very specific formulation because what i'm trying to suggest is there is if you like a kind of radical liberal criticism which is to add these things and they stir them.

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