Author's daughter, if you happen to be reading this... give them a copy of Socialism: Utopian and Scientific instead. I think it's a little bit better than the manifesto for explaining things to people not familiar with communism. Also simply by not being the manifesto it short-circuits the automatic reaction Americans have to anything with the word "communist" in it.
It wouldn't work because this is either by Marx or has communism in the title but I found Marxs Value, Price, Profit is a good intro and Bukharins (regardless of what you think of him lol) ABC of Communism was able to get Russian serfs up to speed on theory.
Author's daughter, if you happen to be reading this... give them a copy of Socialism: Utopian and Scientific instead. I think it's a little bit better than the manifesto for explaining things to people not familiar with communism. Also simply by not being the manifesto it short-circuits the automatic reaction Americans have to anything with the word "communist" in it.
It wouldn't work because this is either by Marx or has communism in the title but I found Marxs Value, Price, Profit is a good intro and Bukharins (regardless of what you think of him lol) ABC of Communism was able to get Russian serfs up to speed on theory.