Terry Eаgeltоn writes, "Suppоse а hаndful оf use were to crawl out of the other side of a nuclear or environmental cataclysm, and begin the daunting task of building civilization again from scratch. Given what we knew of the causes of the catastrophe, would we not be well-advised to try it this time the socialist way?" This is a provocative question, and its a useful one because it helps us begin to think about our final paper even as we are just considering our first paper. If you could remake society from scratch using the Manifesto as a guide, would you? Why or why not? What would you take from the Manifesto and what would you reject?