do we need a more detailed manifesto

[crazy comie]

do we need a more detailed manifesto
i think we do to stop stalinists geting in power.

[The Feral Underclass]

I don't really understand what you mean by a new manifesto. The communist manifesto is a piece of writing which defines what we as communists want to achieve. It explains society and how we can change it. There is nothing in it which can be altered. Communism is a political and scientific philosophy. You can not alter it.

However, i do think it is important for the movement to create pieces of writing which outlines how we will attempt to achieve those objectives in the 21st century. Maybe if a new manifesto was to be written, it should be something which follows on from the communist manifesto and talks more about the problems we face now. :ph34r:

[suffianr]

The Manifesto stays as it is! No changes, thank you!

Communist doctrine should allow for revisions of interpretations and amendments to guidelines, but as far as references go, Das Kapital and the Manifesto are the veritable lifelines that string our diverse Leftist ideologies together.

Of course, we might benefit from an updated gameplan.

[crazy comie]

i wasn't saying change it just make a new more detaield manifesto explaining how comunisum would work in more detail.
the origonal would be what we belive in and a knew one explaining how to put it int practise. it could be called sme thing like theory and belifs of the modern communist party.

[peaccenicked]

This contains the fifteen conditions of entry to the third international
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/work...920/jul/x01.htm (http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/jul/x01.htm)
This programme was written in the midst of a world revolutionary situation where by the first world war
was seen as the death agony of capitalism.
This contains Trotsky's approach after the decline of the third international.
There is much in it, but the main point I think is to learn to be adaptive to present day needs.
http://www.marxist.net/trotsky/programme/p....htm?fourth.htm (http://www.marxist.net/trotsky/programme/p2frame.htm?fourth.htm)