Overview

The Communist Manifesto was written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels and published in 1848. By some accounts, it ranks second only to the Bible in terms of copies printed. The Communist Manifesto appeared during the turbulent year of 1848 as revolutionary uprising were sweeping across Europe in a sign of mass discontent with the exisiting political order. It is a call to political action, containing the famous command, “Workers of the world unite!” But Marx and Engels also used the book to spell out some of the basic truths, as they saw it, about how the world works.

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