Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on SummaryShelfhttps://summaryshelf.app/authors/karl-marx-and-friedrich-engels/Recent content in Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on SummaryShelfHugoen-usWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000The Communist Manifestohttps://summaryshelf.app/communist-manifesto/Fri, 16 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://summaryshelf.app/communist-manifesto/<p>&ldquo;A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism.&rdquo; Marx and Engels open with a provocation, but the argument underneath it is a theory of nearly everything: whoever controls how goods are produced also controls the politics, the laws, and the culture that follow. Read history that way and it becomes one long fight between those who own the means of production and those who have nothing to sell but their own labor.</p>