Haven't read that one but I have read the German Ideology which is Marx and Engels precursor to the Manifesto and also Das Kapital which was written much later. I think all of their works are relevant to today's society. It's going to be very interesting who owns the means of production after this financial crisis. Is it going to be the Government (a more communistic approach)or is it going to be in the hands of an elite bourgeoisie? What is for certain is that we are currently witnessing a crisis in capitalism and the capitalist mode of production. Pity the poor workers though I'm sure they won't get a look in either way.
Without boring you my favorite reading comes from the late eighteenth and the nineteenth century which is the apex (IMO) of political philosophy. In The Federalist Papers - Hamilton, Maddison et al - you will find some of the most interesting political debate you will ever read as they try to form the political structure of their new country taking the best aspects of British Parliamentarism and European revolutionary thinking. I have also read widely around Classical Liberalism and utilitarianism as espoused by John Stuart Mill (again interesting parallels today, would JSM be in favour of the lock-down or would he argue that anyone who does not have the virus should be free to do as they please) and of course the gentlemen we have referred to in the previous posts with their new philosophy built on centuries of injustice imposed on the common man (there expression may have been new but proto-communism can be traced as far back as the Bible and medieval revolts of the peasants).
How we could do with such critical thinkers in this challenging time.
