Honestly it was in a little free library box and I figured I sympathized in theory but I had never actually read the book. The actual manifesto is super super super short. More than half the book was prefaces from various authors (including Marx and engels) and it was still one of the shortest books I’ve read this year.
I just got around to reading the communist manifesto and was surprised by the fact that it doesn’t actually advocate for getting rid of money. It includes steps like having a very progressive tax, abolishing inheritance, and nationalizing banks but those all presume that there will still be money.
It then says that it will take multiple generations under these conditions for the idea of money to disappear and it will happen naturally.
I was also surprised to see that there’s a similar argument for property. That it advocates for seizing private property (which has a particular definition in the book) but says other forms of property can be kept around and will only be abolished naturally in a few generations.
Quentin stare-at-toenail?