To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Communist Manifesto, Verso, a leftist British publisher, is releasing a new edition of the book. The publisher will release the book on May 1, the day in 1889 that the International Socialist Congress publicized the eight-hour work day.
Verso hopes to resurrect a failed ideology.
Robinson has asked fashion houses to display the book. Barneys, Manhattan's high fashion department store, has declined. Two of America's largest bookstore chains will advertise and sell the Communist Manifesto. One wonders if Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels would still hold to their worldview, if they had witnessed the failure of Communism. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the former Soviet Union prove that Communism doesn't work.