Activists Take Page from 'Communist Manifesto'

"The fervor for reform in America today shares in the same spirit of class struggle that inspired [Karl] Marx and [Friedrich] Engels in the 1840s." writes Maura Pennington at Forbes. "Were someone to substitute the word “corporations” or the catch-all “1%” for the word “bourgeoisie,” The Communist Manifesto would chillingly read like any official statement from Occupiers and the 99% movement at large."

Drawing many comparisons between the rhetoric of Marx and today's Occupiers, Ms. Pennington notes that "fools still fall for it [but] Americans, of all people, shouldn't be those fools. ... It is unlikely that the average American being swept up in the 99% movement has read The Communist Manifesto, but our leaders should recognize the language and know better than to recite from that script."