The basics can never be explained enough. The Communist Manifesto is the second-most-read book in the world but the least-read in the West. That might go down in explaining why Putin isn’t seen in such negative terms today as he is in the West and why China is admired by the majority of nations as a social success and not seen as a threat Australian Media makes it out to be.

While China continues to give it’s people increasing freedoms The West is increasingly restricting the freedoms of its citizens.

The analysis of capitalism that Karl Marx presented in the three volumes of Capital remains vital to understanding our social world. A renowned Marxian economist talked to Jacobin to break down the key points of Marx’s economic theory.

Source: The Basics of Marxist Economics