So many people read the Manifesto in high school and think that they are now “familiar with Marx.”
In fairness, they're more familiar with him than the kids who grew up never knowing the guy existed.
The Manifesto is a historical document, not a scientific one. It’s a polemic listing demands, and should be read in the context of the Revolutions of 1848, which made realizing those demands a possibility. What kind of “scathing take down” can you do of a protest in pamphlet form?
Presumably the same take-down you could write around The US Declaration of Independence or the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. You're taking a moral position opposed to the views and beliefs set out in the document and establishing why your position in stronger.
But that’s a very broad statement, and even a (hypothetical) cogent objection to these elements would not constitute a “take down of the whole thing.”
This person got an A and that means the person's views are superior to the document they refuted. Maybe if you write a document that refutes their document and you get an A, then you can claim you are right and they are wrong.
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I'm imagining that they explained, using half-remembered Economics 101, why the demands of the protesters would be bad for the economy.
In fairness, they're more familiar with him than the kids who grew up never knowing the guy existed.
Presumably the same take-down you could write around The US Declaration of Independence or the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen. You're taking a moral position opposed to the views and beliefs set out in the document and establishing why your position in stronger.
This person got an A and that means the person's views are superior to the document they refuted. Maybe if you write a document that refutes their document and you get an A, then you can claim you are right and they are wrong.