Karl Marx #9- Where Does the Communist Manifesto Rank?
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Professor Jonathan Sperber
Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life (Liveright Publishing, 2013)
2014 Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Biography
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Curator Professor Emeritus of History, University of Missouri
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Selected works
• Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Germany
• The Kaiser's Voters: Electors and Elections in Imperial Germany
• Revolutionary Europe, 1780-1850
• The European Revolutions, 1848-1851
#9 How does the Communist Manifesto Rank?
• Communist Manifesto & Das Kapital are best known
• Part of canonical Marx writings
• But many other important Marx writings
• Ideas of young Marx that later developed
• Journalism writings are significant
• And then there is the “weird stuff”
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