Marking the Anniversary of 'The Communist Manifesto'

By JOSEPH A. BUTTIGIEG

If The Communist Manifesto was meant to liberate the proletariat, the Manifesto itself in recent years needed liberating from Marxism's narrow post-Cold War orthodoxies and exclusive cadres. It has been freed.

For evidence, one need only have attended "Manifestivity," a celebration of the Manifesto's 150th anniversary held on October 30 and 31 at Cooper Union's Great Hall, in New York.

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