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No [[other]] [[Marxist]] [[text]] has come close to achieving the fame and influence of [../../../../text/books/karl-[[marx]]/the-[[communist]]-manifesto/index.html ''[[The 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?In this slim book [[Slavoj Žižek]] 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 millions of [[people]] to participate in the new [[form]] of the ‘general intellect’ that they own and [[control]]. But, even if Marx’s [[analysis]] can no longer be applied to our contemporary world of [[global]] [[capitalism]] without significant revision, the fundamental problem with which he was concerned, the problem of the commons in all[[File:The Relevance of the Communist Manifesto.jpg|thumb]]
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