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The Communist Manifesto
- 89 pages · about 1 hour
- First published 1848
- 459 editions
- Free to read
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1 About this book
The Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, commissioned by the Communist League and published in London in 1848, as revolutions were breaking out across Europe. After a short preamble it has four sections. The first presents history as a series of class struggles and describes the rise of the modern bourgeoisie and of the working class that, in the authors' view, will overthrow it. The others set out the aims of the communists, criticize rival socialist movements of the day, and close with a call to the workers of the world to unite.
- History
- Politics
- Classics
- Political science
- Economics
- Philosophy and ethics
- France, history
- Politics and government
2 What to expect
A short political pamphlet from 1848 that presents history as a struggle between classes and predicts the overthrow of capitalism by the working class. It is written to persuade, in forceful, quotable prose, and its first section, on the rise and restless energy of the bourgeoisie, is the most striking. The later sections, on rival socialist groups of the 1840s, are of mainly historical interest, and the whole can be read in an hour or two.
Good for readers who want: political history, the origins of communism, and a very short classic.
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