RE: Examples of manifestos

[Sanjeev Sabhlok <sabhlok@almaak.usc.edu>]

Done,

Pl. check out 

http://www.indiaconsult.com/indiapolicy/other_manifestos.html 

and let me know if you find the any uncles and others.

Sanjeev
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On Mon, 8 Jun 1998, Charudatt wrote:

> You may want to include the grand-daddy of them all: 
> 
> Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels at
> http://www.hartford-hwp.com/cp-usa/manifesto.html
> 
> Though you/I/we may not agree with the content, this is a powerful and
> masterful document that captured the imagination of many people and
> shook the world.
> 
> -Charu
> 
> 
> Here is an excerpt that actually extols the great power of capital
> markets:
> 
> Modern industry has established the world market, for which the
> discovery of America paved the way. This market has given an immense
> development to commerce, to navigation, to communication by land. This
> development has, in its turn, reacted on the extension of industry;
> and in proportion as industry, commerce, navigation, railways
> extended, in the same proportion the capitalist class developed,
> increased its capital, and pushed into the background every class
> handed down from the Middle Ages.
> 
> We see, therefore, how the modern capitalist class is itself the
> product of a long course of development, of a series of revolutions in
> the modes of production and of exchange.
> 
> Each step in the development of the capitalist class was accompanied
> by a corresponding political advance of that class. An oppressed
> class under the sway of the feudal nobility, an armed and
> self-governing association in the medieval commune; here independent
> urban republic (as in Italy and Germany), there taxable "third estate"
> of the monarchy (as in France), afterwards, in the period of
> manufacture proper, serving either the semi-feudal or the absolute
> monarchy as a counterpoise against the nobility, and, in fact,
> cornerstone of the great monarchies in general, the capitalist class
> has at last, since the establishment of Modern Industry and of the
> world market, conquered for itself, in the modern representative
> State, exclusive political sway. The executive of the modern State is
> but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole
> capitalist class.
> 
> The capitalist class, historically, has played a most revolutionary
> part.
> 
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