The Paradox of Marx and Engels Reading the Seminal Document of Communism

The seminal document of communism is actually the last gasp of an excessive optimism and admiration for the bourgeoisie as a class. While it's very powerful in terms of diagnosing the lived experience of living under capitalism, particularly kind of early capitalism, I think it does underplay if you like the other side of things. And they didn't talk very much in these early stages, not enough and not systemically enough about imperialism and about sort of the extractive nature. It's almost something tragic to me as an admirer of Marx and Engels reading this document,. because what you're reading is the words of two people who are about to get their hearts broken.