The Communist Manifesto stands as one of the world's most powerful and influential political tracts of all time. Advocating the common ownership of capital and the means of production, Communism seeks to remedy the exploitation and class divisions that underpin Capitalism. Written in some haste in 1848, The Manifesto was commissioned by the Communist League, laying out the League's purposes and program. "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles ... The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL...
The Communist Manifesto stands as one of the world's most powerful and influential political tracts of all time. Advocating the common ownership of ca...
"The Manifesto of the Communist Party" is still regarded as the most important document to communist philosophy and political theory, having inspired millions of people to rise up against the ruling classes, and revolutionized such world powers as the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and North Korea. By 1980, around 30% of the world was living under communism. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, key members of the Communist League, believed that capitalism would ultimately be replaced with a more socialist-style government, and then eventually develop into full communism. Their ideals were to shift...
"The Manifesto of the Communist Party" is still regarded as the most important document to communist philosophy and political theory, having inspired ...
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon was written between December 1851 and March 1852, and originally published in 1852 in Die Revolution, a German-language monthly magazine. The pamphlet shows Marx in his form as a social and political historian, treating actual historical events-those leading up to Louis Bonaparte's coup d'etat of 2 December 1851-from the viewpoint of his materialist conception of history. The "Eighteenth Brumaire" refers to November 9, 1799 in the French Revolutionary Calendar-the day Louis Bonaparte's uncle Napoleon Bonaparte had made himself dictator by a coup...
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon was written between December 1851 and March 1852, and originally published in 1852 in Die Revolution, a Germ...
With 6 alternate language edition prefaces. One of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated, The Communist Manifesto is a revolutionary summons to the working class-an incisive account of a new theory of communism that would be brought about by a proletarian revolution. Arguing that increasing exploitation of industrial workers will eventually lead to a rebellion in which capitalism will be overthrown, Marx and Engels propose a vision of a society without classes, private property, or a state. The theoretical basis of political systems in Russia, China, Cuba, and...
With 6 alternate language edition prefaces. One of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated, The Communist Manifesto is a...
