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Posted: 06 May 2022

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Statues of Marx and Engels in the Marx-Engels-Forum, Berlin, with Berlin Cathedral behind

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 Dinesh
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. . . In the year 1848, which was also a failure in the short term, was to have an equally profound long-term political impact on Germany and an even greater one on the rest of the world: a rich young businessman, and a thirty-year old lawyer-turned philosopher published a slim twenty-three page pamphlet in an attempt to energize the member of a new fringe group, the German Communist League. The ‘Communist Manifesto’ appeared just before the popular unheavals in Germany got into their stride. Its authors, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles, had both had to leave Prussia because of their revolutionary ideas, so the manifesto, written in Germany, first appeared in London, where they could publish freely. Phrases from the Communist Manifesto have become the mantra of left-wing politics worldwide and are familiar to even the least politically minded: “The history of all hither existing societies in the history of class struggles,” and, finally, resoundingly, “Workers of the world, unite!” ~ page 272

. . . .the Karl-Marx-Allee is still the grandest street in the refurbished eastern half of the city; and at the heart of Berlin, the political centre of Europe’s leading capitalist economy, still stand, splendidly positioned, the imposing bronze statues of the authors of the ‘Communist Manifesto’ and the heroes of the German Democratic Republic -- Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx. The path from 1948 continue. ~ Page 281
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Germany ~ Memories of a Nation
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