The belated topicality of the Communist Manifesto

The philosopher Slavoj Žižek examines the Communist Manifesto, which can also be used as an age document: he makes an inventory of which of the main ideas of Marxism can be considered and which it is advisable to get rid of. When he wrote the work, which has since been published in a hundred languages, Friedrich Engels, a publicist and philosopher who is barely thirty years old and co-authored an independent thinker, found (with some rhetorical exaggeration and anticipating the future) that the ghost of communism was touring Europe. Certain sentences in the text have since become hotel verbs with different signs. The first Hungarian translation was published in 1896.