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The Communist Manifesto A copy of Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei (1848; The Communist Manifesto), by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

The Communist Manifesto

work by Marx and Engels
Also known as: “Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei”, “Manifesto of the Communist Party”(Show More)
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The Communist Manifesto, (“Manifesto of the Communist Party”), 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. (Read Leon Trotsky’s 1926 Britannica essay on Lenin.) The Communist Manifesto embodies the authors’ materialistic conception of history (“The history of all hitherto existing society is the...

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