Philosophy

The Communist Manifesto

Name: The Communist Manifesto
Author: Karl Marx
ISBN: 9780981224480

by Karl Marx

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Synopsis

A new and attentively restored edition of the economic, political, and philosophical platform of worker's rights, given back to the German tradition from which it stems. Inspiring innumerable revolutions since first penned in 1847, and serving as the cornerstone of Soviet policy, very few people alive today can honestly claim that it has not affected their lives personally and profoundly. Marx and Engels set forth to define, for their fellow members of the Communist League and the world, the difference between Socialists and Communists, the lack of decent literature, the differing forms and history of the ideology, and the doctrine of class struggle throughout the ages between variant forms of proletarians and bourgeois.

About the Author, Karl Marx

Karl Marx studied law and philosophy at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, completing his doctorate in 1841. Expelled from Prussia in 1844, he took up residence first in Paris and then in London where, in 1867, he published his magnum opus Capital. A co-founder of the International Workingmen’s Association in 1864, Marx died in London in 1883.

Frederic L. Bender is Professor of Philosophy and Chairman of the Philosophy Department at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He is the author of The Betrayal of Marx, and editor of Karl Marx: The Essential Writings.