The Communist Manifesto is the 4th most assigned book in college classes.

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Eh...It's not a bad book to read. I read it when I was 16 or so. It's just that I didn't agree with it. The problem is those same retarded college students have been systematically conditioned to be completely devoid of critical thinking skills. Don't send your kids to college. You're retarded if you do. It was the worst experience of my life. Mainly because I was coerced against my will by the adults in my life. I just wanted to start working in a factory and saving money. I'd probably own some of the means of production by now....

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Yup. Not to mention, it's good to know thy enemy.

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Exactly. I have read some of the Talmud and Koran. I want to know what my enemies believe in to use it against them.

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Of course it is. Colleges are crazy. I took a few classes when I was younger, also worked for them and realized how stupid it was. They teach kids it’s ok, basically expected for them to do drugs and sleep around, that they just need to do it carefully. Parents paying money.. for their children to literally be told to do drugs. Not to mention I realized later that so many who went to that college ended up having identity crises, about gender and sexuality within a year or 2. The other college in town gets made fun of, people say they need helmets and whatnot cuz they’re so dumb. A party school where many drop out. I’ve seen women who wanted to be stay at home moms turn into purple haired dykes by the time they graduate, a married man with a baby on the way who wanted to be a doctor took a sexuality class wound up ‘transgender’ and tore their family apart with their stupid (he never became a doctor, majored in gender bullshit instead). My friend who I saw as a child drool over boys claim to be a lesbian within a year of college, coming home having a mental breakdown bc she suddenly thinks she’s a man too. Colleges are horrible places. Only a few majors should even exist. The rest is just Marxist garbage.

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As long as its assigned and taught in a "Know Your Enemy" fashion, I'm okay with it.

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Nothing wrong with reading it, but it should be balanced by apposing views.

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Agreed. It's a book that should be read after someone is provided an education in economics and household management. Marx and Engels voiced some the same observations regrading the exploitation of labor inherent within Mercantilism that many writers made in their time and across the centuries prior. However, it was that they didn't understand economics well enough to know the prevailing economic system in the western world has been mercantilism and not capitalism that was my first red flag that they were socially isolated academic intellectuals.

Where as their ethnic peers, such as Benjamin Graham and Irwin A. Schiff express a vastly superior understanding of the economic systems both in theory and practice that Marx and Engels just didn't have. Mind you, a reasonably intelligent person will come to those conclusions even before they delve into the Communist Manifesto's bat guano insane ideas of how society should function.