{"product_id":"the-communist-manifesto-by-friedrich-engels-9781945186257","title":"The Communist Manifesto","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe great claim was that Marxism, as put forth in the \u003ci\u003eCommunist Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e, was scientific. Marx and Marxists spoke much of the \"false consciousness\" of people whose arguments are only superficially intellectual. These individuals, though they themselves are unaware of it, are mere projections of class prejudice and thus believe they are acting from religious or other motives while really being driven by economic interests.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince Marxists took their theory to be the science of society, including history, sociology, and economics, when this became the official view of the state, it implied, and in fact resulted in, the substitution of Marxism for the supposed pre-scientific gropings that had hitherto prevailed. In all the Marxist states, alternative views were suppressed—in academia as well as in society as a whole. This led to a mental enslavement and degeneration of thought.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47643281359084,"sku":"9781945186257","price":25.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1a23fd7d4ca96b636a839bc7997010c5.jpg?v=1779168063","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-communist-manifesto-by-friedrich-engels-9781945186257","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}