The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto Zizek Hardback Polity Press

The Relevance of the Communist ManifestoAuthor(s): Slavoj Zizek\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Polity Press\nISBN-13: 9781509536108, 978-1509536108\nSynopsis\nNo other Marxist text has come close to achieving the fame and influence ofThe Communist Manifesto. Translated into over 100 languages, this clarion call to the workers of the world radically shaped the events of the twentieth century. But what relevance does it have for us today?\n\n In this slim book Slavoj Zizek argues that, while exploitation no longer occurs the way Marx described it, it has by no means disappeared; on the contrary, the profit once generated through the exploitation of workers has been transformed into rent appropriated through the privatization of the general intellect. Entrepreneurs like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg have become extremely wealthy not because they are exploiting their workers but because they are appropriating the rent for allowing million.