As the gap between rich and poor continues to widen, a new generation is reflecting on the insights of Karl Marx. Marx not only stood against the global economic system but he also helped us understand it. He explained how wealth was created on the backs of workers, how “surplus value” is realized and how accumulation is achieved through unpaid labour-time, the intensification of work and the tyranny of credit. (Source: JManga)
In an English industrial city of the XIX century, the exploitation of workers by employers reaches unbearable levels. In order to change this reality, a group of workers comes together to build their own Utopia. Inspired by the ideas of Marx and Engels in Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848), this manga presents one of the most influential political treatises of all time, which marked the history of the XIX and XX centuries and shaped the world of today.
