The Communist Manifesto

2020 Reprint of the 1888 Edition. Unabridged text of this quintessential call to arms. The Communist Manifesto summarizes Marx and Engels' theories concerning the nature of society and politics, namely that in their own words "...the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles". It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism. In the last paragraph of the Manifesto, the authors call for a "forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions", which served as a call for communist revolutions around the world.In 2013, The Communist Manifesto was registered to UNESCO's Memory of the World Program along with Marx's Capital, Volume I. It is the political tract in which Marx presented the core of his philosophy and revolutionary program. Contents: I. BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS .................................................. II. PROLETARIANS AND COMMUNISTS ........................................... III. SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST LITERATURE ............................ 1. REACTIONARY SOCIALISM ........................................................... 2. CONSERVATIVE, OR BOURGEOIS, SOCIALISM ......................... 3. CRITICAL-UTOPIAN SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM ............... IV. POSITION OF THE COMMUNISTS IN RELATION TO THE VARIOUS EXISTING OPPOSITION PARTIES ....................................