The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings: Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao, Gandhi, and Others [B1246]

2003 PB in nice clean condition. A compilation of writings by some of the best-known revolutionaries in history, including Marx, Mao, and Rousseau (now getting some renewed interest for some reason . . . )

From Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "This is a great collection that was fun to read. It has the communist manifesto, yes, but it also gives you an interesting pallet of political writings from some of the most influential political activists and figures over the past hundreds of years. I think that having this book exposes one to a lot of interesting ideas and good historical works. Good book that does what it set out to do."; "Basically a useful accumulation of 'revolutionary writings', very broadly defined. Revolutionary ideologies represented within include liberalism, socialism (of the utopian, Marxist, libertarian, etc varieties), communism (of the council, Leninist, Maoist, etc varieties), anarchism, trade unionism, feminism, left-nationalism, and anti-colonialism, and the texts span from 1755 (Rousseau) to 1977 (Charter 77). They include extracts of books, essays, pamphlets, speeches, manifestos, legal acts, propaganda, and so on. There are light biographical and contextual notes for each item, but almost nothing in the way of critique or analysis- this is a sourcebook, not a history book. Reading it from cover to cover might thus be disorienting, as, while all the texts represent some form of revolutionary impulse, there isn't a smooth continuum of ideas between them, and they do not represent a continuous history."; "Much more than Marx's manifesto! This is a collection of political theory and talk. It features Rousseau; Danton; Marx & Engels; Marat; Proudhon; Lenin; Havel; Paine; Jefferson and others. What I like most is the inclusion or Jean Paul Marat, George Jacques Danton, and other writers from the period of the French Revolution; we don't see many writings of this period in English. This is an affordable option for a good overview of leftist political thought and revolutionary rhetoric of primary sources."