The Communist Manifesto

by Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx

Paperback, 111 pages

English language

Published Dec. 1, 2010 by Marxists Internet Archive.

ISBN:: 978-0-9805428-2-0

(6 reviews)

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One of the most influential political tracts ever published this short book succinctly explains the aims and purpose of the Communist League of the 19th century, giving the author’s theories of the class struggle which they assumed would inevitably lead to world wide communism.

Full text available at Project Gutenberg too: www.gutenberg.org/files/61/61.txt

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License: www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/

Full text available at Project Gutenberg too: www.gutenberg.org/files/61/61.txt

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vxnxnt reviewed Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei by Friedrich Engels

An interesting historical read

4 stars

The manifesto is mostly just interesting as a historical piece for me, especially in terms of leftist history. Ideologically it's still pretty interesting to read, however some parts of it have naturally become a bit outdated which has even been acknowledged by Marx and Engels some 25 years later.

The edition of the manifesto I read even includes multiple prefaces by Engels throughout the years which further gave an amazing insight into history and what they felt and thought at the time. Additionally the book also included Engel's The Principles of Communism which practically functioned as an FAQ to fully illustrate what exactly Communism is and it stands for.