The relevance of The Communist manifesto

No other Marxist text has come close to achieving the fame and influence of 'The Communist Manifesto'.

Translated into over 100 languages, this clarion call to the workers of the world radically shaped the events of the 20th century.

But what relevance does it have for us today? In this slim book, Slavoj Zizek argues that, while exploitation no longer occurs in the way Marx described, it has by no means disappeared - on the contrary, the profit once generated by the exploitation of workers has been transformed into rent appropriated by the privatisation of the 'general intellect'.