Since it was first written in 1848, The Communist Manifesto has been translated into more languages than any other modern text. All across the world—in countless places and idioms—it has been debated, shared, brandished, invoked, banned, burned, and even declared “dead.” But in an era of escalating political, economic, health, and environmental crises, Marx and Engels’ fierce indictment of capitalism is more relevant than ever, and their Manifesto remains required reading from the classroom to the picket line.

Join Editor Phil Gasper and special guests Sabrina Fernandes and Vanessa Wills for this event celebrating the second edition of the definitive introduction to history’s most influential and controversial political document, newly updated for a new generation of readers.

Get your copy here: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2107-the-communist-manifesto

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Speakers:

Phil Gasper is the editor of The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document and is on the editorial board of New Politics. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Notre Dame de Namur University in California and currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

Sabrina Fernandes is a Brazilian sociologist and political economist, and the Head of Research at the Alameda Institute. She holds a PhD from Carleton University and was formerly a postdoctoral fellow with the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung and with the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies. She is an ecosocialist activist, a member of the Ecosocial Pact of the South and her research is focused on transition, Latin America and internationalism. She's also the editor of the special editions of The Communist Manifesto and The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, published in Portuguese by Paz & Terra.

Vanessa Wills is a political philosopher, ethicist, educator, and activist based in Washington, DC. Her monograph, Marx’s Ethical Vision, will be released in April 2024 and is available for pre-order from Oxford University Press.

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