The Communist Manifesto - Unabridged

The Communist Manifesto - Unabridged

by Karl MarxFriedrich Engels and Kevin Theis
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 23/04/2024

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"The Communist Manifesto" is one of the most important and influential political documents ever written. Originally published as a pamphlet in London in 1848, it was written by the German philosophers and political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as a means of codifying and clearly expressing the goals and tenets of the Communist movement.


After briefly making it's way through France and Germany - and inspiring several abortive uprisings in both countries - the document lapsed into obscurity for almost twenty years. But as Marx and Engels became more and more influential in the workers' movements across Europe, the Manifesto was re-published and re-translated, influencing socialist and communist movements around the world, most particularly in Russia and China.


The central theme of the Manifesto posits that capitalism is exploitative to workers and creates a bourgeoisie class of elites whose purpose is to amass more capitol and maintain their workforce in a subservient, dehumanized state. The alternative they propose is a classless society where private property is abolished, industry is owned and operated collectively by the state, education and healthcare are provided free to the masses and child labor outlawed.


Both hailed as a seminal political document and vilified as a poisonous piece of propaganda, "The Communist Manifesto" remains one of the most important political documents ever published and it is presented here in its original and unabridged format, as translated in 1888.

ISBN:
9798892820721
9798892820721
Category:
Politics & government
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
23-04-2024
Language:
English
Publisher:
Ft. Raphael Publishing Company
Karl Marx

Karl Marx was born in the German city of Trier in 1818. He studied law in Bonn and Berlin at his father's insistence, but his true interests lay elsewhere and, in 1841, he received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jena.

For the next two years he wrote for radical left-wing newspapers before moving to Paris with his wife, Jenny; there he became a communist and met his lifelong friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels.

They published their revolutionary pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto, in 1848 and Marx moved to London a year later. He spent the rest of his life there - often in considerable poverty - while he wrote his magnum opus of political theory, Das Kapital. Karl Marx died in 1883.

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