Cover of The Communist Manifesto

Book · 2011 · Political Science

The Communist Manifesto

by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx · Recommended by 30 people on 9 podcasts

#36 of 15,593 books, ranked by how many different people bring it up on podcasts

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people
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33
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The communist manifesto is truly frightening if you read it in in like modern context it's worth reading.
John Clarke · Lex Fridman Podcast · Dec 2020 Listen at 2:51:19

What they say about it

Grouped from 41 mentions
  • Destruction of the family“destruction of the family”
    2
  • Praise of capitalism“love letter to capitalism”
    2
  • Call to arms“call to arms”
    2

The best things said about it

6 of 41 · every mention
Recommended
If you read the communist manifesto which I recommend to all your viewers they must read the communist manifesto the first nine or ten pages are devoted to praising the capitalist class.
Brendan O'Neill The Rubin Report · Dec 2017
Discussed
I can't seek to learn from them cuz I could just pick up the Communist Manifesto or Mein Kampf Right and have a pretty good understanding of who I'm dealing with.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Mar 2026
Discussed
They made us read the Communist Manifesto in college, and I would describe the first half of the book as this like love letter to capitalism, and then his conclusions are just very bad.
Ehsan Ahmad The Joe Rogan Experience · May 2025
Discussed
Its tone is different from that of The Communist Manifesto, which is a call to arms.
Vejas Liulevicius Lex Fridman Podcast · Sep 2024
Discussed
If you read The Communist Manifesto, the most important point in the book is the destruction of the family.
Alex Story The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · Oct 2022
Discussed
If you read the Communist Manifesto, you understand modern feminism. You know, you are talking about the male bourgeoisie and the female proletariat.
Carl Benjamin The Rubin Report · Feb 2016

Where and when it comes up

Mentions per year

Counted mentions by episode date. Our archive is deeper for recent years; 2026 so far.

How it comes up

Recommended means the speaker tells listeners to read it.

Most mentions, by podcast

9 shows

30 people who brought it up

Most recommendations first

Also: Ehsan Ahmad · Hannah Claire Brimlow · Ian Crossland · James Lindsay · James O'Keefe · Jeffrey Sachs · Jesse Michels · Joe Rogan · Jordan Peterson · Josh Clark · Lex Fridman · Lily Tang Williams · Liz Wheeler · Luke Rudkowski · Matthew Williamson · Morgonn McMichael · Yannis Varoufakis · Zev Weinstein

Why people recommend it

The Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels that outlines class struggle and the core tenets of communism. On The Rubin Report, Robert Kiyosaki described holding the book up at an event to challenge teachers to read it and discover their political identity. On Timcast IRL, Tim Pool referenced the work to connect open border policies with chapter two of Marxist philosophy, and Allen West recommended it for understanding opposing ideologies. On the Lex Fridman Podcast, John Clarke discussed the value of reading foundational texts directly, noting that the manifesto is frightening in a modern context. Brendan O'Neill recommended the book on The Rubin Report, observing that its opening pages praise the capitalist class. James Lindsay referenced the text on The Rubin Report to explain the destabilization tactics of communist groups, while Matthew Williamson mentioned it on Timcast IRL to trace the historical roots of left-wing ideology.

Every mention

41 counted mentions · 11 passing or ad reads below
John Clarke i haven't read marx directly ... the communist manifesto is truly frightening if you read it in in like mod… 2
Recommended
“i haven't read marx directly ... the communist manifesto is truly frightening if you read it in in like modern context it's worth reading”
Recommended
“the communist manifesto is truly frightening if you read it in in like modern context it's worth reading”
Robert Kiyosaki They said, "Don't be political," so I showed up in my Marine flight jacket and I held this book up for all… 3
Discussed
“In 1965, I read this book here, "The Communist Manifesto."”
Recommended
“They said, "Don't be political," so I showed up in my Marine flight jacket and I held this book up for all the teachers and I said, "You guys should read this book and find out who you are."”
Discussed
“So when you start, if you read this book here.”
Tim Pool if you think about for instance like we want to abolish the borders that's right out of the communist manif… 2
Recommended
“if you think about for instance like we want to abolish the borders that's right out of the communist manifesto that's chapter two you can go ahead and get it from the library or your marxist neighbor and read it”
Discussed
“yep just remember communist manifesto is being used by them”
Allen West definitely you have got to read karl marx communist manifesto 1
Recommended
“definitely you have got to read karl marx communist manifesto”
Brendan O'Neill if you read the communist manifesto which I recommend to all your viewers they must read the communist mani… 1
Recommended
“if you read the communist manifesto which I recommend to all your viewers they must read the communist manifesto the first nine or ten pages are devoted to praising the capitalist class”
Alex Story if you read Das Capitan sorry if you read The Communist Manifesto the most important point in the book is t… 2
Discussed
“if you read Das Capitan sorry if you read The Communist Manifesto the most important point in the book is the destruction of the family it's the number one thing of the book Nothing Else Matters as much as that”
Discussed
“If you read Das Capitan sorry if you read The Communist Manifesto the most important point in the book is the destruction of the family”
Carl Benjamin If you read the Communist Manifesto, you understand modern feminism. You know, you are talking about the ma… 2
Discussed
“If you read the Communist Manifesto, you understand modern feminism. You know, you are talking about the male bourgeoisie and the female proletariat.”
Discussed
“And it is The Communist Manifesto is the third most prescribed book in universities in America. Just so you know. The Communist Manifesto.”
Robert Evans what they are actually referring to is chapter 2 of The Communist Manifesto which Kint did get right it was… 2
Discussed
“what they are actually referring to is chapter 2 of The Communist Manifesto which Kint did get right it was written in 1848 right”
Discussed
“and this is you know that that Mark's quote history comes once as first as a tragedy and second as a farce yeah that he writes that about Louis Napoleon”
Vejas Liulevicius "The Communist Manifesto" moreover, is also something of the nature of having a delayed fuse, you could say… 2
Discussed
“"The Communist Manifesto" moreover, is also something of the nature of having a delayed fuse, you could say. Because when it first appears amid the revolutions of 1848 that sweep across Europe,”
Discussed
“Its tone is different from that of "The Communist Manifesto," which is a call to arms.”
Amor Towles the surrealist Manifesto of Breton or or the the the Communist Manifesto is amazing 1
Discussed
“the surrealist Manifesto of Breton or or the the the Communist Manifesto is amazing”
Austin Petersen we have instituted not only we Institute the planks The Communist Manifesto but we've also instituted the G… 1
Discussed
“we have instituted not only we Institute the planks The Communist Manifesto but we've also instituted the German Workers”
Dave Rubin So since the book is called "The Anti-Communist Manifesto," and I'm sure many people are familiar with "The… 1
Discussed
“So since the book is called "The Anti-Communist Manifesto," and I'm sure many people are familiar with "The Communist Manifesto," first off, do you make a distinction at this point...”
Ehsan Ahmad they made us read the Communist Manifesto in college and uh I would describe the first half of the book as… 1
Discussed
“they made us read the Communist Manifesto in college and uh I would describe the first half of the book as this like love letter to capitalism um and then his conclusions are just very bad.”
Hannah Claire Brimlow the famed German co-authored The Communist Manifesto which scholar Frederick Engles in 1848 a piece of writ… 1
Discussed
“the famed German co-authored The Communist Manifesto which scholar Frederick Engles in 1848 a piece of writing that makes the case for political theory of socialism”
Ian Crossland You think at the very least they went and inserted like a gardening manual in the communist manifesto like… 1
Discussed
“You think at the very least they went and inserted like a gardening manual in the communist manifesto like chapter 2. Like just sandwich in there. How to make food, a guide for communists.”
James Lindsay the point is to destabilize but it's actually on the last page of the communist manifesto why this is the c… 1
Discussed
“the point is to destabilize but it's actually on the last page of the communist manifesto why this is the case so all the way back Karl Marx Frederick Engles 1848 they publish you know a few sentences down is, you know, workers of the world unite.”
James O'Keefe They were arguing project Veratas is not James O'Keefe. It's our it's our employees. It's our labor. that i… 1
Discussed
“They were arguing project Veratas is not James O'Keefe. It's our it's our employees. It's our labor. that it was one of the great ironies of my life to watch people with master's degrees in economics make arguments out of the communist manifesto.”
Jeffrey Sachs All of that went away with mechanization. uh they ended up as degraded uh workers and it was exactly that u… 1
Discussed
“All of that went away with mechanization. uh they ended up as degraded uh workers and it was exactly that uh what we call miserization becoming more miserable that led Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles to issue the communist manifesto uh in uh the 18 late 1840s.”
Jesse Michels Actually Karl Marx wrote two books. Um you know he wrote uh uh obviously the communist manifesto in 1848. 1
Discussed
“Actually Karl Marx wrote two books. Um you know he wrote uh uh obviously the communist manifesto in 1848.”
Joe Rogan I can't seek to learn from them cuz I could just pick up the Communist Manifesto or Mein Kampf Right and ha… 1
Discussed
“I can't seek to learn from them cuz I could just pick up the Communist Manifesto or Mein Kampf Right and have a pretty good understanding of who I'm dealing with”
Jordan Peterson i offered a 15-minute critique of the communist manifesto at the beginning and at one point i described it… 1
Discussed
“i offered a 15-minute critique of the communist manifesto at the beginning and at one point i described it to the audience as a call to bloody violent revolution”
Josh Clark because he and Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto but it's always just Carl marks Carl marks you know must… 1
Discussed
“because he and Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto but it's always just Carl marks Carl marks you know must drive angles crazy”
Lex Fridman I would love to sort of talk about the works of Marx, "The Communist Manifesto" and the "Das Kapital." 1
Discussed
“I would love to sort of talk about the works of Marx, "The Communist Manifesto" and the "Das Kapital."”
Lily Tang Williams he used Karl Marx Theory Communist Manifesto author to separate people into primarily two big groups will h… 1
Discussed
“he used Karl Marx Theory Communist Manifesto author to separate people into primarily two big groups will heard those names oppressor versus oppressed”
Liz Wheeler The popes, especially like around the time of Marx and Engels, when they were writing the Communist Manifes… 1
Discussed
“The popes, especially like around the time of Marx and Engels, when they were writing the Communist Manifesto around the time of the Soviet Union, it was Catholic popes who were saying, "Listen, communism is satanic..."”
Luke Rudkowski there was these like communists there who were like okay guys we're gonna do sparkly fingers and we're gonn… 1
Discussed
“there was these like communists there who were like okay guys we're gonna do sparkly fingers and we're gonna make the communist manifesto the mainstream occupy wall street”
Matthew Williamson like so the Jacabins and and Rouso, all those ideas or all the ideas that Marx kind of put into the communi… 1
Discussed
“like so the Jacabins and and Rouso, all those ideas or all the ideas that Marx kind of put into the communist manifesto”
Morgonn McMichael I mean I've talked to kids all the time that have read The Communist Manifesto and they endorse Carl Marx a… 1
Discussed
“I mean I've talked to kids all the time that have read The Communist Manifesto and they endorse Carl Marx and they love social on College cuses”
Yannis Varoufakis When we talk about disruptive Technologies that's Marx if you read even the Communist manifest is the way t… 1
Discussed
“When we talk about disruptive Technologies that's Marx if you read even the Communist manifest is the way that technology disrupts the social relations of production and creates a new model production”
Zev Weinstein so like for example you know the communist manifesto was probably much more dangerous during early 1900s ru… 1
Discussed
“so like for example you know the communist manifesto was probably much more dangerous during early 1900s russia than it was during the 1848 revolutions”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker3
Discussed
“when then he was arguing stuff from The Communist Manifesto and and different because I remember that part specifically I clipped it”
Discussed
“Karl Marx the famed philosopher and author of the Communist manifest Can you imagine years old Can you imagine calling like gerbils a famed philosopher like honestly like Marx is responsible for millions and millions and dozens of millions his ideas have were responsible for dozens of millions of deaths in in the in the 20th century at least the”
Discussed
“um the idea when we talk about disruptive Technologies that's Marx if you read uh even the Communist manifest is the way that technology disrupts the social relations of production and creates a new model production”

Also mentioned in the same episodes

Other mentions (11: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“He's not a wildeyed radical, but you would have thought he was reading the Communist Manifesto on air and burning an American flag given the response from his fellow conservatives”
Passing
“I had communist manifestos chucked at my head.”
Passing
“They then fly back to mainland China where this kid is raised in the Communist Chinese party as a devout worshipper of the Communist regime and he wiggles his little red book in the air as he runs around playing Communist Manifesto.”
Passing
“At the age of 25, he moves back to the United States where he is a US citizen and he spends the next 15 years working in various industries.”
Passing
“I don't think I finished that story but I was hit in the head with a Communist Manifesto at a party oh yeah hit in the head like literally”
Passing
“the Communist Manifesto by marks and Engels a Vindication of the rights of woman by Mary Walston craft”
Passing
“that's like alien dialectic crap it's Communist Manifesto”
Passing
“So, they're debating Atlas Shrugged and Communist Manifesto, which you J, it's kind of like the complete opposite of religions in economy.”
Passing
“Marx's book is in the library Communist Manifesto that's in the library so is Adam Smith”
Passing
“Ann Coulter's sat down with Frank Bruni of the New York Times for an interview where she basically said that Trump not building the wall would be more of a betrayal than implementing the principles of the communist manifesto”
Passing
“did you go to the Communist Manifesto dinner I just wanted to know what it was all about blacklisted”

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