| The Communist Manifesto Contributor(s): Marx, Karl (Author), MacFarlane, Helen (Translator), Engels, Friedrich (Author) |
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ISBN: 154468505X ISBN-13: 9781544685052 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Economy - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 335.422 |
| Physical Information: 0.08" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.14 lbs) 38 pages |
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| Publisher Description: From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns. From these burgesses the first elements of the bourgeoisie were developed. The discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie. The East-Indian and Chinese markets, the colonisation of America, trade with the colonies, the increase in the means of exchange and in commodities generally, gave to commerce, to navigation, to industry, an impulse never before known, and thereby, to the revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid development. The feudal system of industry, under which industrial production was monopolised by closed guilds, now no longer sufficed for the growing wants of the new markets. |