Your cartoonist Martin Rowson has just published his own inimitable version of the Communist Manifesto. John GreenSecretary, Ken Sprague Fund• “Liberty, happiness, autonomy, individuality, spirituality, self-guided development are ideals that Marx and Engels valued above everything else,” writes Yanis Varoufakis. The Communist Manifesto is unremittingly focused not on the unity of “the people” but on the divisions within a social formation that pits one class against another in a struggle to the death. Dr Malcolm ReadBelper, Derbyshire• Yanis Varoufakis is right to underline the continuing relevance of The Communist Manifesto’s analysis of capitalism. Both Marx and Engels played an active role in events, which ended with Marx appearing in Britain as a political refugee.

Source: The Guardian April 22, 2018 17:26 UTC