The Cambridge Companion to the Communist Manifesto covers the historical and
biographical contexts and major contemporary interpretations of this classic
text for understanding Marx and Engels, and for grasping Marxist political
theory. The editors and contributors offer innovative accounts of the history of
the text in relation to German revolutionaries, European socialism, and
socialist political projects; rhetorical, dramaturgical, feminist and
post-colonial readings of the text; and theoretical analyses in relation to
political economy, political theory and major concepts of Marxism. The volume
includes a fresh translation into English, by Terrell Carver, of the first
edition (1848), and an exacting transcription of the rare earliest English
translation (1850) by Helen