{"id":45610,"date":"2026-08-15T07:48:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T15:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/?p=45610"},"modified":"2026-08-15T07:48:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T15:48:21","slug":"the-communist-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/?p=45610","title":{"rendered":"The Communist Manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Author:<\/strong> Karl Marx &amp; Friedrich Engels<\/p>\n<h2>Synopsis<\/h2>\n<p>Marx and Engels present history as a struggle between social classes whose interests are shaped by their positions within systems of production. They describe modern capitalism as a conflict between the bourgeoisie, who control productive property, and the proletariat, who sell their labor.<\/p>\n<h2>Why It Matters to Sociology<\/h2>\n<p>The Manifesto became one of history&#x27;s most influential political texts and helped place class conflict at the center of social analysis. Its concepts continue to influence sociology&#x27;s study of inequality, capitalism, labor, globalization, ideology, and social change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Karl Marx &amp; Friedrich Engels Synopsis Marx and Engels present history as a struggle between social classes whose interests are shaped by their positions within systems of production. They describe modern capitalism as a conflict between the bourgeoisie, who control productive property, and the proletariat, who sell their labor. Why It Matters to Sociology &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/?p=45610\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Communist Manifesto&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2028.abramjmeister.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}