"What is globalization? Here is one of the best answers. It is the ''constant revolutionizing of production'' and the ''endless disturbance of all social conditions.'' It is ''everlasting uncertainty.'' Everything ''fixed and frozen'' is ''swept away,'' and ''all that is solid melts into air. Since it was first written in 1848, the Manifesto has been translated into more languages than any other modern text. It has been banned, censored, burned, and declared "dead." But year after year, the text only grows more influential, remaining required reading in courses on philosophy, politics, economics, and history. "Apart from Charles Darwin''s Origin of Species," notes the Los Angeles Times, the Manifesto "is arguably the most important work of nonfiction written in the 19th century." The Washington Post calls Marx "an astute critic of capitalism." Writing in The New York Times, Columbia University Professor Steven Marcus describes the Manifesto as a "masterpiece" with "enduring insights into social existence."