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The Communist Manifesto (German: Das Kommunistische Manifest), originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is a political pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London in 1848.
May 20, 2024 · The Communist Manifesto, pamphlet (1848) written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to serve as the platform of the Communist League. It became one of the principal programmatic statements of the European socialist and communist parties in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Manifesto of the Communist Party. A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
The “Manifesto of the Communist Party” was written by Marx and Engels as the Communist League’s programme on the instruction of its Second Congress (London, November 29-December 8, 1847), which signified a victory for the followers of a new proletarian line during the discussion of the programme questions.
Mar 2, 2022 · The Communist Manifesto. by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. [From the English edition of 1888, edited by Friedrich Engels] Contents. I. BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS. II. PROLETARIANS AND COMMUNISTS. III. SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST LITERATURE. IV. POSITION OF THE COMMUNISTS IN RELATION TO THE VARIOUS EXISTING OPPOSITION PARTIES.
Jun 19, 2022 · It was a crude, rough-hewn, purely instinctive sort of Communism; still, it touched the cardinal point and was powerful enough amongst the working class to produce the Utopian Communism, in France, of Cabet, and in Germany, of Weitling. Thus, Socialism was, in 1847, a middle-class movement, Communism a working class movement.
The Communist Manifesto appeared during the turbulent year of 1848 as revolutionary uprising were sweeping across Europe in a sign of mass discontent with the exisiting political order. It is a call to political action, containing the famous command, “Workers of the world unite!”
