> I'd like to suggest you find a dictionary and look > up the word, "Manifesto." Well, yes now that you mention it. Of course being a manifesto (by definition) does not necessarily make it accessible. It would take some significant motivation to work through all the supporting materials to the original manifesto. If the reader is put off by the original document, he is less likely to check the back up. > > One might say that Marx's and Engle's entire body of > work consisted of > backing up, sentence by sentence, the Communist > Manifesto My understanding is that their later work did just as you say. My comment was meant more along the lines of, by itself the CM is not a good argument for communism. At the time I felt that if the central statement of principals is so poorly done, what is the point of slogging through the rest? Being at the time a 17yo college student rather full of myself, I admit that my insight as a reader and judge of political theory was lacking, and that not investigating further may have been a hasty decision. Nevertheless, even at this remove, I think the CM could have been written better, and been a better call to the readers of it to investigate further. The good news is I am going revisit their works now and see how I react today, so maybe we can talk again after I am better educated :) I'm realy looking forward to it, in fact. I would be interested to know of any specific works you consider most useful. Chris __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com