Publisher’s Note
The Indian Institute of Marxist Studies is planning to reprint a series of Marxist classics to help new readers get acquainted with the Marxist worldview. The Communist Manifesto marks
Foreword[1]
The Congress of the Communist League held in London in November 1847 had commissioned Marx and Engels to write a ‘detailed theoretical and practical programme for the Party’. Accordingly Marx
Our Epoch, Our Manifesto
How dramatically can political mood and ideological discourse change in a mere couple of decades! In January 1989 the New Yorker greeted the collapse and crisis of
PREFACES to VARIOUS EDITION of THE MANIFESTO
Preface to The 1872 German Edition
The Communist League, an international association of workers, which could of course be only a secret one, under conditions
Communist Manifesto
-- Karl Marx & Frederick Engels
A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise
The history of all hitherto existing society [2] is the history of class struggles.
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master[3] and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and
In what relation do the Communists stand to the proletarians as a whole?
The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to the other working-class parties.
They have no interests separate
1. Reactionary Socialism
A. Feudal Socialism
Owing to their historical position, it became the vocation of the aristocracies of France and England to write pamphlets against modern bourgeois society. In the French
Section II has made clear the relations of the Communists to the existing working-class parties, such as the Chartists in England and the Agrarian Reformers in America.
The Communists fight for
