Marx and Engel’s landmark treatise – in a graphic deluxe edition
One of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated, The Communist Manifesto is a revolutionary summons to the working class-an incisive account of a new theory of communism that would be brought about by a proletarian revolution. Arguing that increasing exploitation of industrial workers will eventually lead to a rebellion in which capitalism will be overthrown, Marx and Engels propose a vision of a society without classes, private property, or a state. The theoretical basis of political systems in Russia, China, Cuba, and Eastern Europe, The Communist Manifesto continues to influence and provoke debate on capitalism and class.
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About The Communist Manifesto
"A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of Communism." So begins one of history’s most important documents, a work of such magnitude that it has forever changed not only the scope of world politics, but indeed the course of human civilization. The Communist Manifesto was written in Friedrich Engels’s clear, striking prose and declared the earth-shaking ideas of Karl Marx. Upon publication in 1848, it quickly became the credo of the poor and oppressed who longed for a society "in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."
The Communist Manifesto contains the seeds of Marx’s more comprehensive philosophy, which continues to inspire influential economic, political, social, and literary theories. But the Manifesto is most valuable as an historical document, one that led to the greatest political upheaveals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and to the establishment of the Communist governments that until recently ruled half the globe.
This Bantam Classic edition of The Communist Manifesto includes Marx and Engels’s historic 1872 and 1882 prefaces, and Engels’s notes and prefaces to the 1883 and 1888 editions.
Karl Marx (1818–1883) was a philosopher, social scientist, historian, and revolutionary. He is without a doubt the most influential socialist thinker… More about Karl Marx
About Friedrich Engels
Born in Westphalia in 1820, Friedrich Engels was the son of a textile manufacturer. After military training in Berlin and… More about Friedrich Engels
About Karl Marx
Karl Marx (1818–1883) was a philosopher, social scientist, historian, and revolutionary. He is without a doubt the most influential socialist thinker… More about Karl Marx
About Friedrich Engels
Born in Westphalia in 1820, Friedrich Engels was the son of a textile manufacturer. After military training in Berlin and… More about Friedrich Engels
