The Communist Manifesto: Original

By Karl Marx

The Communist Manifesto, German Manifest Der Kommunistischen Partei, (1848; “Manifesto of the Communist Party”), pamphlet 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.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Digital Deen Publications
• Release date: May 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9788826437170

Karl Marx

Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German philosopher, historian, political theorist, journalist and revolutionary socialist. Born in Prussia, he received his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Jena in Germany and became an ardent follower of German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Marx was already producing political and social philosophic works when he met Friedrich Engels in Paris in 1844. The two became lifelong colleagues and soon collaborated on "The Communist Manifesto," which they published in London in 1848. Expelled from Belgium and Germany, Marx moved to London in 1849 where he continued organizing workers and produced (among other works) the foundational political document Das Kapital. A hugely influential and important political philosopher and social theorist, Marx died stateless in 1883 and was buried in Highgate Cemetery in London.

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Title: The Communist Manifesto

Author: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Language: English

MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY

[From the English edition of 1888, edited by Friedrich Engels]

A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism.

All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to

exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot,

French Radicals and German police-spies.

Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

Two things result from this fact.

I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European Powers to be itself a Power.

II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.

To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London, and sketched the following Manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.

I. BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS

The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.

In the earlier epochs of history, we find almost everywhere a complicated arrangement of society into various orders, a manifold gradation of social rank. In ancient Rome we have patricians, knights, plebeians, slaves; in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs; in almost all of these classes, again, subordinate gradations.

The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones. Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinctive feature: it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes, directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat.

From the serfs of the Middle Ages sprang the chartered burghers of the earliest towns. From these burgesses the first elements of the bourgeoisie were developed.

The discovery of America, the rounding of the Cape, opened up fresh ground for the rising bourgeoisie. The East-Indian and Chinese markets, the colonisation of America, trade with the colonies, the increase in the means of exchange and in commodities generally, gave to commerce, to navigation, to industry, an impulse never before known, and thereby, to the revolutionary element in the tottering feudal society, a rapid development.

The feudal system of industry, under which industrial production was monopolised by closed guilds, now no longer sufficed for the growing wants of the new markets. The manufacturing system took its place. The guild-masters were pushed on one side by the manufacturing middle class; division of labour between the different corporate guilds vanished in the face of

Reviews for The Communist Manifesto

[John Walker · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

karl moneybags marx dropping knowledge on them bourgeois bootlickers. certified based

[Furiousroge · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

This is very very very very very very not good

[Believe Manasseh · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

We could dismiss Marx as a "mere idealist" but we can't deny the fact that he wrote from an informed position. This is an interesting read; backed by historical evidences.

[Mike TopSecret · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

He wanted to help the workers... LOL
Hepled them right into the grave, where they were finally all equal.

His head was so fertile it couldn't even grow hair. He was simply version 1.0 of today's socialists.

[Michael Beauharnois · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

I expected something far more intelligent. That was too much to ask for. I guess I should not expect too much coming from a spoiled rich kid who never worked a day in his life. Daddy paid for him to go to school. Daddy left him the equivalent $200k in his will, so he had no clue of the actual working class struggle. He never fed any of his family, and so his family was always starving. If Bernie Sanders had existed in the 1800s, this would have been him writing this. The only reason Bernie Sanders is not Karl Marx and is not struggling is because he grew up in the most prosperous nation in the history of the world, and now owns three houses without ever having worked a day in his life. Karl Marx would be envious.

[annoyed_Hindu · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

This is why I love Adolf Hitler. The Ultimate Anti-Masonic Frontiersman. Karl Marx was a Freemason. The whole idea of the working masses overcoming the small rich class is dumb. This has been debunked. The Capitalists provide jobs in cities putting people to work in sheet metal factories and also aluminum making; also semiconductors provide for new motor cars. As all cars are basically computers nowadays. Weapons making is also a big business as BLM and Antifa has caused people to buy firearms to protect themselves. Communism is a ZERO SUM GAME. Everyone loses because in the end everybody votes for entitlements and even the rich lose their assets, and if there's no rich people; where would you get money for entitlements? Communism is basically people asking for free money and benefits and only appeals to LAZY PEOPLE. someone has to provide for the benefits and if those people lose their shirts then we would only have masters and slaves. BTW Roman Catholicism = Communist! 2888 Hail Victory!

[Santiago Serrano · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Ok... creo que vale la pena leerlo para entender el porqué de este movimiento, pero aún así no es una filosofía a seguir, después de leerlo mi liberalismo se afianzó aún más

[Sean Phinney · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

hmmmmmm i see why theres communist memes happening right now l o l