The Communist Manifesto

No cover — Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx: The Communist Manifesto

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One of the most influential political tracts ever published this short book succinctly explains the aims and purpose of the Communist League of the 19th century, giving the author’s theories of the class struggle which they assumed would inevitably lead to world wide communism.

Full text available at Project Gutenberg too: www.gutenberg.org/files/61/61.txt

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License: www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/

One of the most influential political tracts ever published this short book succinctly explains the aims and purpose of the Communist League of the 19th century, giving the author’s theories of the class struggle which they assumed would inevitably lead to world wide communism.

Full text available at Project Gutenberg too: www.gutenberg.org/files/61/61.txt

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aThousandCateaus (bookwyrm) reviewed the communist manifesto by Friedrich Engels

Communist Manifesto is gud

4 stars

I think it's pretty good. It's pretty polemical and lays out the political goals of communists, it doesn't really get into Marxist philosophy and the methods in which Marx comes to his conclusions though. I'd probably recommend "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" as a better introduction to Marxism.