The Communist Manifesto was a one-party state under the rule of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU). Unlike their mass-based counterparts of the Second International, the CPSU and other Leninist parties like it in the Third International expected their members to know the classic works of Marx, Engels and Lenin. Further, party leaders were expected to base their policy decisions on Marxist-Leninist ideology. Therefore works such as the "Manifesto" were required reading for the party rank-and-file. Therefore the widespread dissemination of Marx and Engels' works became an important policy objective; backed by a sovereign state, the CPSU had relatively inexhaustible resources
The Communist Manifesto from the most recent writings on globalisation." Alex Callinicos, editor of "International Socialism", stated in 2010 that "This is indeed a manifesto for the 21st century." Writing in "The London Evening Standard" in 2012, Andrew Neather cited Verso Books' 2012 re-edition of "The Communist Manifesto", with an introduction by Eric Hobsbawm, as part of a resurgence of left-wing-themed ideas which includes the publication of Owen Jones' best-selling "" and Jason Barker's documentary "Marx Reloaded". In contrast, critics such as Revisionist Marxist and reformist socialist Eduard Bernstein distinguished between "immature" early Marxism—as exemplified by the "Communist Manifesto" written by Marx and