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01 - Bourgeois and Proletarians - The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx

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The proletarian movement is the self-conscious, independent movement of the immense majority in the interests of the immense majority.
This episode is a reading and analysis of the first chapter of The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It explores the foundational concepts of class struggle, the historical rise of the bourgeoisie, the creation of the proletariat, and the inevitable conflict between these two great hostile camps.

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A forceful argument about class struggle, the bourgeois order, and the system that undoes itself.

The episode frames The Communist Manifesto as a hard-edged argument that builds step by step: Europe is shown as haunted by communism, class struggle drives history, and the bourgeoisie appears as both the maker of modern society and the force least able to control what it has…

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For when you want a compact, uncompromising manifesto on class struggle and bourgeois society.

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