The Communist Manifesto Study Guide

by Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx

About 37 pages (11,210 words)

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The Manifesto of the Communist Party, informally the Communist Manifesto, was authored in 1847 by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels at the request of the Communist League. As established by latter writings of Engels, Marx provided the dominant philosophy and performed the bulk of the writing. The document so produced summarized the philosophical platform of the Communist party and was originally published in German in 1848. (read more)

1848

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

Preface to the 1872 German Edition

Preface to the 1882 Russian Edition

Preface to the 1883 German Edition

Preface to the 1888 English Edition

Preface to the 1890 German Edition