The Communist manifesto of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ One of the most influential political tracts ever published this short book succinctly explains the aims and purpose of the Communist League of the 19th century, giving the author’s theories of the class struggle which they assumed would inevitably lead to world wide communism. Full text available at Project Gutenberg too: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/61/61.txt Presents Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' revolutionary 1848 text, which declared that the history of society is the history of class struggles; and includes the prefaces to seven editions from 1872 through 1893, and an introduction by A. J. P. Taylor. With an introduction and notes by A.J.P. Taylor. Follows the progress of the Manifesto and examines the relevance of its nineteenth-century ideas to modern politics