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  • Well-known communist writings are still read today; "The Communist Manifesto" written by Marx and Engels in 1848 was a best seller in Britain in 2015.
  • The first known use of the word "communism" was in 1840.
  • Many anticolonial nationalists in East Asia in the 1940s and Latin and South America starting in the late 1960s saw communism as a promising ideology.

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