The Communist Manifesto

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.

The Communist Manifesto embodies the authors' materialistic conception of history ("The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles"), and it surveys that history from the age of feudalism down to 19th-century capitalism, which was destined, they declared, to be overthrown and replaced by a workers' society. The communists, the vanguard of the working class, constituted the section of society that would accomplish the "abolition of private property" and "raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class."

Title

The Communist Manifesto | The Communist Manifesto

Author

K. MARX & F. ENGELS

ISBN

9789937711616

Language

English

Published

2021

Publication

Educational Book House

Pages

112

Category

Foreign Literature