“This is an important book that I hope many Canadians will read and debate. … At the very least, this is a book that should inspire some useful conversations among activists and some renewed dedication to the visions of a better world that first brought so many of us to be attracted to Marxism. All, in all, Engler has done us all a favor with this book. Read it yourself and discuss it with your friends and comrades.
Tom Sandborn, Columbia Journal September 2013
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The book starts with a question: If Karl Marx were alive today and asked to write a new edition of The Communist Manifesto, how would it be different from the original, composed 165 years ago? The New Commune-ist Manifesto is the answer.
While following the spirit of the old, the New Manifesto is written for the twenty-first-century working class and transforms the original from a historical document into a call-for-action to build an economic democracy based on environmental sustainability.
The book argues that regaining our vision of an alternative to the existing system is the key to rebuilding the workers movement. But this vision must be more than “pie in the sky” — it must be practical and based on experience. It must confront the real problems we face, including the environmental crisis that jeopardizes our planet.
New Commune-ist Manifesto