My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Marx is still relevant today, without a doubt. In 1848, he has written a manifesto that still speaks to today’s society and economies: the concentration of money in fewer hands; the exploitation of workers in order to increase capital; globalization; propaganda to turn workers against their own needs, etc.

Who can’t look at our current unemployment numbers while corporations pay ridiculous and scandalous salaries and dividends and not resonate with Marx when he writes about the modern working class. “A class of laborers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labor increases capital. These laborers, who must sell themselves piece-meal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market.”

If you haven’t read this, read it. If you have read it, read it again. This work is as important today as it was more than 150 years ago.