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Karl Marx Bashes the Chinese Communist Party

Posted by Ned Kelly on 13 March, 2008

Listen carefully to the opening paragraphs of Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto”.    It sounds like his main target of criticism is today’s Chinese Communist Party.    As you listen, just substitute the term “Chinese Communist Party” every time you hear the word “Bourgeois”.   

Incidentally the editing and selection of animated illustrations for this “Communist Manifestoon” are damned good.     Enjoy, even while you digest the food for thought about what Marx would say about today’s China:  

 

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