Riley: The manifesto was published in 1848 on the eve of these earthshaking, continent wide revolutions. He says it was published too late to have any impact, real impact on them. What was happening in the years and decades leading up to 1848 were so-called dual revolutions. Riley: In that context you've got this kind of accelerating capitalism but also a process of class polarization.

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