Manifesto of the Communist Party Contributor(s): Marx, Karl (Author), Engels, Friedrich (Author) |
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ISBN: 1726303497 ISBN-13: 9781726303491 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $10.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-communism & Socialism - History |
Dewey: 335.422 |
Lexile Measure: 1360 |
Physical Information: 0.18" H x 5" W x 7.99" (0.21 lbs) 88 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The Communist Manifesto is an 1848 political pamphlet by the German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London in German, just as the revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the Manifesto was later recognised as one of the world's most influential political documents. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle and the conflicts of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms. The Communist Manifesto summarises Marx and Engels' theories concerning the nature of society and politics, that in their own words, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles". It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism. Near the end of the Manifesto, the authors call for "forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions", which served as the justification for all communist revolutions around the world. |