The Communist Manifesto
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First published in London in February 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s The Communist Manifesto is one of the most consequential political texts ever written. Commissioned by the Communist League, this concise, forceful pamphlet traces the rise of the bourgeoisie and the transformation of society through industrial capitalism, arguing that history is driven by the struggle between social classes. Marx and Engels contend that the modern world’s economic order is neither permanent nor inevitable, and that the working class will ultimately challenge the system that exploits its labour.
Written on the eve of the European revolutions of 1848, the Manifesto combines historical analysis with revolutionary urgency, its vivid rhetoric carrying an argument far beyond the circumstances of its composition. Its examination of capitalism, class, labour and global commerce remains central to political debate, whether approached as a call to action, a work of social criticism or a document of extraordinary historical influence. More than a century and a half later, its compact power and uncompromising vision continue to shape arguments about inequality, economic power and the organisation of modern society.
From the book
“It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation.”
— Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto
On The Communist Manifesto
“The passionate conviction, the concentrated brevity, the intellectual and stylistic force of this astonishing pamphlet.”
— Eric Hobsbawm, introduction to The Communist Manifesto