The Communist Manifesto
By Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Martin Malia & Stephen Kotkin
- Release Date: 1998-10-01
- Genre: Political Science
Description
Featuring an extensive, provocative introduction by historian Martin Malia, this authorized English translation of The Communist Manifesto, edited and annotated by Engels, with prefaces to editions published between 1872 and 1888, provides a new opportunity to examine the document that shook the world.
In 1848, two young men published what would become one of the defining documents of modern history, The Communist Manifesto. It rapidly realigned political faultlines all over the world and its aftershock resonates to this day. In the many years since its publication, no other social program has inspired such divisive and violent debate. Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the world’s first regime to adopt the Manifesto’s tenets, historians have debated its intent and its impact. In the current era of market democracy in Russia and Eastern Europe, nationalism on every continent, and an ever tightening global economy, does the specter of Communism still haunt the world? Were the seeds of Communism’s ultimate destruction already planted in 1848? Is there anything to be learned from Marx’s envisioned utopia?
With an Introduction by Martin Malia
and an Afterword by Stephen Kotkin
Reviews
Beautiful... I cried 3 times
5By Scotty SavageThis book is the most, beautiful, majestic, and inspiring book on earth. I base everything in my life off of this book. All I can say is read this manifesto because it changed my life.Capitalism
1By SaltySpiceBoo communism,yay capitalismBiased
3By RethorstillThis book is biased and offensive. I am a communist and I disagree that communism is bad. Everything after the introduction is good tho
