The Communist Manifesto has lost touch with its historical origins in 1848. For many of its readers, arguably the vast majority today, it is regarded as an artefact relocated to the era of posterity, or—a more recent, narrower sub-genre—of relevance particularly in the wake of the financial crash of 2008.
But, as Gareth Stedman Jones contends, the Manifesto ‘was not designed for posterity’, or, as Eric Hobsbawm remarks, ‘it is, of course, a document written for a particular moment in history’. According to A.J.P. Taylor, ‘what strikes a historian … is how deeply the Communist Manifesto is rooted in the circumstances of its time … the Manifesto was written in haste … for a particular occasion, the eve of the 1848 revolutions’.
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