On the Communist Manifesto

I’m not sure about Marx and Engels’s solutions, but the first section of the Manifesto — the diagnosis of capitalism’s problems — feels like it could have been written today. Dependency theory and accelerationism seem almost built into it: capitalism will spread across the world, binding even the least developed regions to its core, and capitalism will forge the very weapons that bring about its collapse. It’s worth revisiting now and then, and it’s short enough that doing so takes little effort.