The Communist Manifesto — Capitalism as a Revolutionary System
What if capitalism’s defining feature is not stability, but continual transformation?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, adapted and illustrated by Martin Rowson, this episode investigates the economic system Marx and Engels believed was revolutionizing nineteenth-century society.
Their argument extends beyond a simple conflict between capitalism and communism. Marx and Engels portray the bourgeois capitalist order itself as a disruptive historical force—expanding markets…
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