Rein Gold a publication by Hermann Jellinek in 1848); by "The Communist Manifesto" of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (published in London in 1848); by Marx's "Das Kapital" (1867-1894); and by Richard Wagner's opera cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen" (1848-1874) and a recent study thereof by law expert Wolfgang Schild entitled "Staatsdämmerung" (2007). "rein GOLD" was suggested to Jelinek by Bayerische Staatsoper München. "rein GOLD. ein bühnenessay". Hardcover, 223 p., Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 2013, Rein Gold rein GOLD. ein bühnenessay is a prose work by Elfriede Jelinek, the Austrian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004, published in 2013
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