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Record Nr.

UNINA9910586582203321

Autore

Ireland David

Titolo

The Communist Manifesto in the Revolutionary Politics of 1848 : A Critical Evaluation / / by David Ireland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022

ISBN

9783030994648

9783030994631

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (283 pages)

Collana

Marx, Engels, and Marxisms, , 2524-7131

Disciplina

929.605

335.422

Soggetti

Europe - History

Social history

History - Methodology

History, Modern

World politics

European History

Social History

Theories of History

Modern History

Political History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Manifesto Style and Communism Substance -- 2. Solo Marx, the NRZ as Emerging 1848-49 Focus -- 3. Actual Measures and Missing Levers. 4. Revolutionary Roles: Classes and 'Countries' -- 5. Lingering in Paris, Brussels Preludes -- 6. Engaging with Workers: Mainz, the Communist League, Stephan Born, and the CWA -- 7. Conclusions: Targeting and Priorities.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines why, on the eve of the pamphlet's 175th anniversary, the Communist Manifesto left so faint an imprint on Europe's most revolutionary year of 1848, when it has had such a huge impact on posterity. The Manifesto that year misread bourgeois



intentions, put too much faith in the industrial proletariat, too little in peasants, too much emphasis on the German states, and none on England. Marx and Engels preferred in 1848-9 to focus on the middle-class Neue Rheinische Zeitung, declining to galvanise working-class groups whose leadership they had actively sought. They neglected to return swiftly to the German states in their crucial 1848 'March days'. The Manifesto's programme barely overlapped with contemporary campaigners or comparative pamphleteers, or the replacement Demands of the Communist Party in Germany. The book considers the consequences of Marx opting to write the Manifesto alone in January 1848. It also questions the source and significance of the pamphlet's most memorialised phrase, 'the spectre of Communism', whether it was written for the 'working men of all countries' addressed in its finale, and whether Marx and Engels regarded the Manifesto as highly in 1848, as they undoubtedly did in later life. David Ireland is an independent historian based in London, UK. He studied German and French at Keble College, Oxford, and more recently did an MA in Political Thought and Intellectual History at UCL/Queen Mary University of London.