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Kresta in the Afternoon – February 22, 2024 – Hour 2

The Communist Manifesto was published on February 21, 1848. We look at its origins and legacy with Paul Kengor.

 

Karl Marx and the Birth of the Communist Manifesto

Karl Marx originally published his Communist Manifesto on February 21, 1848. What did it say? How did the Manifesto impact the last two centuries of human history? What is its enduring legacy, and did the Manifesto deliver what the authors promised? Paul Kengor joins us.

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Paul Kengor is author of several books, most recently The Worst of Indignities: The Catholic Church on Slavery. His other books include The Devil and Bella Dodd, The Devil and Karl Marx, and A Pope and A President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century. He has also written spiritual biographies of Ronald Reagan, Hillary Clinton, and George W Bush. He’s professor of political science at Grove City College in Grove City, Pa., and senior academic fellow at the Institute for Faith and Freedom and is the editor of the American Spectator.
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