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The Communist Manifestoby Karl Marx and Friedrich EngelsSummaryThis revolutionary treatise has fired political debate for over a century. In the Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, assert the deleterious effect of capitalism on society and expound the benefits of Communism. This text, even in the predominantly Capitalist world of today, is still relevant and exciting reading. Read Chapter I below. |
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich EngelsI. 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 Czar, 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 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.
II. 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. |
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