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Article: 'All that is solid' after all these years. (anniversary of the 'Communist Manifesto')
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- Canadian Dimension
- Article date:
- May 1, 1998
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About the time of the fall of the Berlin Wall, I began to assign Marx and Engels Communist Manifesto to my first-year western civilization classes. I paired the Manifesto with John Stuart Mill's classic defence of liberalism, On Liberty, and asked students to write a comparative essay. I have found it a challenging way of getting students to comprehend two of the fundamental ideologies of the nineteenth century. As university students do, the students have felt free to volunteer their opinions in the course of writing these essays. In the first years of this assignment, the students expressed an overwhelming preference for the opinions of Mill. But in the course of this ...