Research Catalog

Title

The Communist Manifesto in the revolutionary politics of 1848 : a critical evaluation / David Ireland.

Author

Ireland, David

Publication

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2022]

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Details

Description

xiii, 278 pages; 22 cm.

Summary

This book examines why, on the eve of the pamphlets 175th anniversary, the Communist Manifesto left so faint an imprint on Europes most revolutionary year of 1848, when it has had such a huge impact on posterity. The Manifesto that year misread bourgeois intentions, put too much faith in the industrial proletariat, too little in peasants, too much emphasis on the German states, and none on England. Marx and Engels preferred in 1848-9 to focus on the middle-class Neue Rheinische Zeitung, declining to galvanise working-class groups whose leadership they had actively sought. They neglected to return swiftly to the German states in their crucial 1848 March days. The Manifestos programme barely overlapped with contemporary campaigners or comparative pamphleteers, or the replacement Demands of the Communist Party in Germany. The book considers the consequences of Marx opting to write the Manifesto alone in January 1848. It also questions the source and significance of the pamphlets most memorialised phrase, the spectre of Communism, whether it was written for the working men of all countries addressed in its finale, and whether Marx and Engels regarded the Manifesto as highly in 1848, as they undoubtedly did in later life. David Ireland is an independent historian based in London, UK. He studied German and French at Keble College, Oxford, and more recently did an MA in Political Thought and Intellectual History at UCL/Queen Mary University of London.

Series Statement

Marx, Engels, and Marxisms

Uniform Title

Marx, Engels, and Marxisms.

Subject

• Marx, Karl, 1818-1883
• Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei (Marx, Karl)
• 1800-1899
• Communism > Europe > History > 19th century
• Communism
• Europe

Genre/Form

History.

Contents

1. Manifesto Style and Communism Substance -- 2. Solo Marx, the NRZ as Emerging 184849 Focus -- 3. Actual Measures and Missing Levers. 4. Revolutionary Roles: Classes and Countries -- 5. Lingering in Paris, Brussels Preludes -- 6. Engaging with Workers: Mainz, the Communist League, Stephan Born, and the CWA -- 7. Conclusions: Targeting and Priorities.

Call Number

JFD 23-44

ISBN

• 9783030994631
• 3030994635

OCLC

1338653699

Author

Ireland, David, author.

Title

The Communist Manifesto in the revolutionary politics of 1848 : a critical evaluation / David Ireland.

Publisher

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, an imprint of Springer Nature Switzerland AG, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Marx, Engels, and Marxisms

Marx, Engels, and Marxisms.

Chronological Term

1800-1899

Other Form:

ebook version : 9783030994648

Research Call Number

JFD 23-44