The Communist Manifesto

The work that started it all. This booklet is the founding document of the Marxist movement and is a must-read for all students of socialism. It includes all the prefaces by Marx and Engels. At first sight it may seem that the republication of the Communist Manifesto requires an explanation. How can one justify a new edition of a book written almost 150 years ago? Yet in reality the Manifesto is the most modern of books. The truth of this affirmation can be easily demonstrated. If we examine any bourgeois book written one and a half century ago about the same subjects, it will rapidly become clear that such a work will be merely of historical interest, with no the slightest practical application. However, the present work provides us with a profound analysis which, in an amazingly small amount of words, provides a brilliant explanation of the most fundamental phenomena which occupy our attention on a world scale at the present time. In point of fact, the Communist Manifesto is even mor