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
The Communist Manifesto of the spectre of communism with a manifesto of the party itself". The first section of the "Manifesto", "Bourgeois and Proletarians", elucidates the materialist conception of history, that "the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles". Societies have always taken the form of an oppressed majority exploited under the yoke of an oppressive minority. In capitalism, the industrial working class, or "proletariat", engage in class struggle against the owners of the means of production, the "bourgeoisie". As before, this struggle will end in a revolution that restructures society, or the "common ruin of the contending