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Communist Manifesto Socialist Landmark
Author: Harold J. Laski

Text extracted from opening pages of book: COMMUNIST MANIFESTO SOCIALIST LAN DM A KK. ^ lew Appreciation written for the hour Party by Harold J Laski with the original text and prefaces London GEORGE ALLEN AND UN WIN LTD Ruskiii House, Museum Street CONTENTS FOREWORD 6 PREFACE o INTRODUCTION n MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY 105 Foreword by the... more » Labour Party IN presenting this centenary volume of the Communist Manifesto, with the valuable Historical Introduction by Professor Laski, the Labour Party acknowledges its indebtedness to Marx and Engels as two of the men who have been the inspiration of the whole working-class movement. The British Labour Party has its roots in the history of Biitaitv The Levellers. Chartists, Christian Socialists, the Fabians and many other bodies, all made their contributions, and the British Trade Unions made it possible to cany theory into practice. John Ball, Robert Owen, William Morns, Kcir Ilaidie, John Burns, Sidney Webb, and many more British men and women have played outstanding parts in the development of socialist thought and organisation. But British socialists have never isolated themselves from their fellows on the con tinent of Europe. Our own ideas have been different from those of continental socialism which stemmed more directly from Marx, but we, too, have been influenced in a hundred ways by European thinkers and fighters, and. above all, by the authors of the Manifesto. Britain played a large part in the lives and work of both Marx and Kngcls. Marx spent most of his adult life here and is buried in Highgate cemetery. Engels was a child of Manchester, the very symbol of capitalist industrialism. When they wrote of bourgeois exploita tion they were drawing mainly on English experience. The authors were the first to admit that principles must be applied in the light of existing conditions, but even the detailed programme they put forward is of Foreword great interest to us. Abolition of private property in land has long been a demand of the Labour movement. A heavy progressive income tax is being enforced by the present Labour Government as a means of achieving social justice. We have gone far towards abolition of the right of inheritance by our hca\ y death duties. Centralisation of credit in the hands ot the State is partially attained in the Bank of England Act and other measures. We have largely nationalised the means of communication while extending public ownership of the factories and instruments of production. We have declared the equal obligation of all to work. We are engaged in redressing the balance between town and country, between industry and agriculture. Finally, we have largely established free education for all children in publicly-owned schools. Who, remembering that these were demands of the Manifesto, can doubt our common inspiration? Finally, a word about the Introduction. In his preface to the 1922 Russian edition of the Manifesto, Rya/ anoff pointed out that a commentary would need to do three things : 1. To give the history of the social and revolutionary movement which called the Manifesto into life as the programme of the first international com munist organisation. 2. To trace the genesis, the source, of the basic ideas contained in the Manifesto, to show their place in the history of thought, to bring out what was new in the philosophy of Marx and Engels, what differentiates them from earlier thinkers. 3. To indicate to what extent the Manifesto stands the test of historical criticism and how far it needs amplification and correction in certain points. Communist Manifesto: Socialist Landmark Ryazanoff did not produce such a massive work; Professor Laski has gone far towards it, and we look forward to the further material that he promises . Since his publication of Communism/' twenty years ago, he has been the foremost English authority on the subject. It is unnecessary to do more than commend to all the present scholarly Introduction which he has presen

ISBN-13: 9781406759723
ISBN-10: 1406759724
Publication Date: 3/15/2007
Pages: 172
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Publisher: Laski Press
Book Type: Paperback
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