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Engels distinguishes between earlier “utopian” socialist projects and the form of socialist theory he and Marx advocated. It is short enough to read alongside a contrasting work, which makes it particularly useful for understanding the internal vocabulary of nineteenth-century socialist argument
The Manifesto is a political and economic argument about class conflict, capitalism and historical change. Its value for a beginner is partly comparative: reading it alongside Adam Smith exposes two very different ways of thinking about markets, property, labor and social order
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