"The Communist Manifesto " of Marx was a document subversive in his time and influenced nearly two centuries, should be read today for two reasons. I use the verb "must" because I think it is an indispensable reading to end all the misconceptions about Marx and communism.First, this book is a historical document that clarifies this birth of the Bourgeoisie then the Proletariat and hence the class struggle. Thus in the first chapter, Marx travels as the crow flies the different stages of these births; a real genesis. All this of an effective simplicity, an almost romantic narration that never bores the reader. Then, this book is a perfect example of political verve with its well constructed rhetorical and argumentative structure. This appears in the second chapter where Marx tries to answer the objections of the bourgeoisie against the ideas of the communists. Marx ridicules his bourgeois adversaries by the surprising simplicity with which he responds to the happiness of the proletarians. Enjoy this example: "You are seized with horror because we want to abolish private property, but in your society private property is abolished for nine-tenths of its members, precisely because it does not exist for these nine-tenths. "It exists for you, and you reproach us with wanting to abolish a form of property which can only be constituted on the condition of depriving the immense majority of society of all property."
"In addition, the Communists have been accused of wanting to abolish the fatherland, the nationality, the workers have no homeland, they can not take away what they do not have." As a former poet, Marx illustrates his explanations of comparisons. Thus these bourgeois "look like the magician who can no longer dominate the infernal powers he has evoked." moreover, he introduces here and there strong and easy-to-learn slogans for proletarians like the famous "Proletarians of all countries, unite!" which closes the book. Apart from that, we keep a lot of distance from the ideas of Marx, those who have upset the world and caused so many misfortunes or as he calls it, this "specter [that] haunts Europe" and the world in general because "the communist revolution is the most radical break with traditional property relations, and it is not surprising that, in the course of its development.