Hey everybody, it's James Lindsay, and you are listening to the New Discourses podcast,

and it's time we go back and finish the long promised other part of my miniature series on the Communist Manifesto.

So if you recall in the previous episode of this two-part mini-series, I read chapters one and two, along with the preface to the Communist Manifesto.

And then I said that chapter three is a bunch of basically kind of annoying junk where Karl Marx complains about other kinds of communism.

But then there's this other document that's in my copy of the Communist Manifesto called

The Principles of Communism, that's like a 25 point FAQ, frequently asked questions, kind of document.

Except that's not actually what it is.

What it actually is is where Frédéric Ingalls was writing his program for the Communist League

before the Communist Manifesto came out, which was actually originally written as a kind of confession of faith, so to speak.

In fact, the communist confession of faith.

And he and Marx discussed that

that was inappropriate in late 1847, the Communist Manifesto coming out in 1848, and delivering it as a

kind of catechism, as it were, would not be the right way to go. And instead, they published it as a manifesto. And then

in this copy of the manifesto, this actual original principles of communism document is included.

Turns out there's also a fourth chapter to the actual body of the Communist manifesto as well. That's two pages. It's very short.

And so I'm going to go through that fourth chapter of the manifesto now, and then the principles of

communism as promised. So chapter four of the Communist Manifesto, position of the communists

in relation to the various

existing opposition parties.

And what you're going to hear is that this isn't that far off from the end of the

principles of communism.

When we get there, he says Section 2 has made clear the relations of the communists to the

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