About the Book: Communist Manifesto
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today, Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels The Communist Manifesto is edited with an introduction by
Gareth Stedman-Jones in Penguin Classics. Marx and Engelss revolutionary summons
to the working classes, The Communist Manifesto is one of the most important
political theories ever formulated. After four years of collaboration, they
produced an incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage
a society without classes, private property or a state, arguing that the
exploitation of industrial workers will eventually lead to a revolution in which
Capitalism is overthrown. This vision provided the