Political Philosophy PDF EPUB

Manifesto of the Communist Party

Downloads: Under 100
First published: 1848
Pages: 43

Download

About this book

Drawn up in German in January 1848 for a workingmen's association called the Communist League, this political programme sets out how its authors read the history of Europe. The edition here is the English translation by Samuel Moore, revised by Frederick Engels, who adds a preface and a few explanatory notes dated 1888.

Engels uses that preface to trace what became of the text: the league broken up after the Cologne trial of 1852, the later International Workingmen's Association, and translations into Danish, Polish, Russian, French and Spanish. He also names the central idea he credits to Marx, that the history of mankind is a history of class struggles.

The main text argues about capital, wage labour, property and the middle class, in a direct, debating voice that answers its critics as it goes.

About the author

Karl Marx

Karl Marx was a German philosopher, social and political theorist, economist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He developed the theory of historical materialism, analyzing class struggle under capitalism and predicting the system's overthrow by the proletariat in favour of communism.