Publisher's Synopsis
The Manifesto of the Communist Party (Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei, by its title in German), often called simply the Communist Manifesto, is one of the most influential political treaties in history. It is a manifesto commissioned by the League of Communists to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels between 1847 and 1848, and first published in London on February 21, 1848. It is an early text by Marx and Engels, in the The foundations of Marxism are already reflected, including the materialist conception of history. However, it is still prior to the development of the Marxist economy, as well as historical events that would make some aspects of the manifesto obsolete, according to Marx and Engels themselves. The text begins by developing the materialist conception that the history of human society is a history of struggles of oppressive classes and oppressed classes, and that in today's society humanity tends to be divided between two antagonistic classes: bourgeoisie and proletariat.
