The Communist Manifesto. Karl Marx

      Table of Contents

       Manifesto of the Communist Party Karl Marx

       Introduction

       Chapter 1 Bourgeois and Proletarians

       Chapter 2 Proletarians and Communists

       Chapter 3 Socialist and Communist Literature

       1. Reactionary Socialism

       2. Conservative or Bourgeois Socialism

       3. Critical-Utopian Socialism and Communism

       Chapter 4 Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties

       Chapter 5 Appendix A: Prefaces to various Language Editions

       1. 1872 German Edition

       2. 1882 Russian Edition

       3. 1883 German Edition

       4. 1888 English Edition

       5. 1890 German Edition

       6. 1892 Polish Edition

       7. 1893 Italian Edition

       Chapter 6 Appendix B: Definitions

       1. Burgeoisie

       2. Guild-master

       3. Commune

       4. Home Colonies

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      Manifesto of the Communist Party

      Karl Marx

      (Translator: Samuel Moore)

       Published: 1848 Categorie(s): Non-Fiction, Social science, Political science

      Introduction

      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 Tsar, 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:

      Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power.

      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.