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  • Published: 9 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9781644212813
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

Manifesto

Three Classic Essays on How to Change the World




The three texts this book, all written in vastly different eras —The Communist Manifesto (1848) by Marx and Engels, Reform or Revolution (1899) by Rosa Luxemburg and Socialism and Man in Cuba (1965) by Ernesto Che Guevara—illuminate socialist ideas of the 19th and 20th centuries.

For a new generation of activists, these are classic revolutionary writings by four famous rebels, including The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels; Reform or Revolution by Rosa Luxemburg; and Che Guevara’s Socialism and Man in Cuba. Includes an introduction by Cuban Marxist intellectual Armando Hart and a preface by US radical poet Adrienne Rich.
 
The essays in this book, Manifesto, were written by three relatively young people—Karl Marx when he was 30, Rosa Luxemburg at 27, Che Guevara at the age of 37. Born into different historical moments and different generations, they shared an energy of hope, an engagement with history, a belief that critical thinking must inform action, and a passion for the world and its human possibilities. Here are urgent conversations from the past that are still being carried on, among new voices, throughout the world.
 

  • Published: 9 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9781644212813
  • Imprint: RH US eBook Adult
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 192

About the authors

Karl Marx

KARL MARX was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, and revolutionary socialist who, with Friedrich Engels, wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848. With Engels, he co-founded the International Workingmen’s Association.

Friedrich Engels

FRIEDRICH ENGELS was a German political philosopher and revolutionary socialist. With Karl Marx, Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848 and was a co-founder of the International Workingmen’s Association.

Ernesto Che Guevara

ERNESTO CHE GUEVARA DE LA SERNA was born in Rosario, Argentina, on June 14, 1928. While studying for a medical degree in Buenos Aires, he took a trip with his friend Alberto Granado on an old Norton motorcycle through all of Latin America, the basis for The Motorcycle Diaries. During his travels he witnessed the Bolivian revolution in 1953; and, in Guatemala in 1954, the overthrow of the democratically elected government of Jacobo Arbenz by US-backed forces. Forced to leave Guatemala, he went to Mexico City, where he linked up with exiled Cuban revolutionaries and met Fidel Castro in 1955. Che joined their expedition to Cuba, where the revolutionary war began in the Sierra Maestra mountains. At first Che was the troop doctor, and later became Rebel Army commander in July 1957.  Following the rebels’ victory on January 1, 1959, he was a key leader of the new revolutionary government and also of the political organization that in 1965 became the Communist Party of Cuba.