Manifesto: Three Classic Essays on How to Change the World - Softcover

If you are curious and open to the life around you, if you are troubled as to why, how and by whom political power is held and used, if you sense there must be good intellectual reasons for your unease, if your curiosity and openness drive you toward wishing to act with others, to do something,’ you already have much in common with the writers of the three essays in this book.”Adrienne Rich

With a preface by Adrienne Rich, Manifesto presents the radical vision of four famous young rebels: Marx and Engels’Communist Manifesto, Rosa Luxemburg’s Reform or Revolution and Che Guevara’sSocialism and Humanity.

Che Guevara was the legendary Latin American guerrilla fighter who joined the Cuban revolutionary movement that toppled the Batista dictatorship. He played a leading role in the early years of the Cuban Revolution and made an extraordinary and original contribution to Marxist theory. He died at the hands of CIA assassins in Bolivia in 1967. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848 and were founders of the First International Workingmen's Association. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto in 1848 and were founders of the First International Workingmen's Association. Rosa Luxemburg was a leader of the German Social Democratic Federation and jailed for her opposition to WWI. She was assassinated in 1919.