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.