Spanning 3 centuries, this works include such milestone documents as the Declaration of Independence (1776), the Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789), and The Communist Manifesto (1848). Also included are writings by the Russian revolutionaries Lenin and Trotsky, Marat and Danton of the French Revolution, Rousseau, Gandhi, Mao, other leading figures in revolutionary thought.
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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
NIce Anthology for a nice Price,
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This review is from: The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and Others (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)
For 3.50 you cannot go wrong with this Dover Anthology of revolutionary writings. Spanning the American, French, Russian and Chinese revolutions it offers a broad range from Rousseau to Paine and Mao. One of the best advantages of this edition is that it offers many speeches and small writings that normally would have to be tracked down in a library. Though there are not many completed revolutionary texts in this edition, you have to remember that it is under 5 dollars and that similar, larger anthologies also do not include that manny completed texts. So if you are interested in revolutionary writings this book would be the perfect introduction for you.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
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Good collection for the price but..,
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This review is from: The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and Others (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)
This collection of various revolutionary writings collects texts from a variety of sources, from the Declaration of Independence of the USA, the Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels, to famous Anarchist writings, reaching to modern day revolutionaries such as Che Guevara.
For the price, the collection is definitely worth the buy. However, I believe that the book suffers from an obvious problem, which should be addressed. The variety of Ideological texts presented in this collection do not give a clear vision of any of their Ideologies. Each text is presented with a short introduction explaining the writer's origins or the historical conditions, but the introductions are mostly a paragraph long, and will not be of any real value to the reader, if no historical and ideological background reading has been done. If you are buying this collection for the Communist Manifesto, I would suggest to buy a better edition, as there is such a variety of great editions with proper analysis in its history and the writers' motives (such as The Communist Manifesto: A Modern Edition). If you are buying this collection for a general understanding of ideas such as Liberalism, Anarchism, Communism etc, with no background reading, again, I would suggest that you start off from other books. However, if you are interested in the various texts found in this book, that are often of great historical importance, (such as the Declaration of Independence, or the Tennis Court Oath), this book would be proven very interesting and useful. This edition is a Dover Thrift edition, which means that it is produced on low quality paper, hence the low price of the book. For anyone interested in what exactly is included in this book, here is the list of contents: JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU: Preface and Part 2, Discourse on the Origins and Foundations of Inequality VOLTAIRE: "Policy" THOMAS JEFFERSON: A Summary View of the Rights of British America THOMAS PAINE: Appendix to Common Sese REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: Declaration of Independence CAMILLE DESMOULINS: "Live Free or Die" EMMANUEL JOSEPH SIEYÈS: Preface and Chapter 1, What Is the Third Estate? THIRD ESTATE: Decree upon the National Assembly NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF FRANCE: The Tennis Count Oath NATIONAL ASSEMBLY OF FRANCE: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen JEAN PAUL MARAT: "Are We Undone?" THOMAS PAINE: From Conclusion to Part 1, The Rights of Man GEORGES JACQUES DANTON: "Dare, Dare Again, Always Dare" PIERRE-SYLVAIN MARÉCHAL: Manifesto of the Equals F. N. BABEUF: "Analysis of the Doctrine of Babeuf" ROBERT OWEN: "The Legacy of Robert Owen to the Population of the World" PIERRE-JOSEPH PROUDHON: Chapter 1, What Is Property? MARX AND ENGELS: The Manifesto of the Communist Party MARX AND ENGELS: Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League FERDINAND LASSALLE: "The Working Man's Programme" PETER KROPOTKIN: "An Appeal to the Young" MIKHAIL BAKUNIN: From God and the State V. I. LENIN: "May Day" LEON TROTSKY: "The Proletariat and the Revolution" LEON TROTSKY: "The Events in St. Petersburg" EMMA GOLDMAN: "The Tragegy of Women's Emancipation" LEON TROTSKY ET AL.: The Zimmerwald Manifesto V. I. LENIN: "The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution [The April Theses]" ROSA LUXEMBURG ET AL.: A Call to the Workers of the World V. I. LENIN AND THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT: "Declaration of Rights of the Working and Exploited People" MOHANDAS K. GANDHI: Ahmedabad Speech PETER KROPOTKIN: "The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Government" MOHANDAS K. GANDHI: "Satyagraha (Noncoöperation)" MAO ZEDONG: Manifesto of the Chinese People's Liberation Army [October 10th Manifesto] CHE GUEVARA: "Colonialism is Doomed" VACLAV HAVEL, JAN PATOCKA, ET AL.: Charter 77
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Fantastic and good for someone on the go,
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This review is from: The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and Others (Dover Thrift Editions) (Paperback)
This is revolution a great book for someone that has somewhere to be. The writings are mostly just a few pages long so you can begin and finish a thought before you have to stop reading. The only setback is that Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" isn't in the book in it's entirety. Only the appendix for "Common Sense" is in it. It is really hard to label that a setback because this book has so much packed into it for such a reasonable price.
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