Original publication date
1848
Pages
48
Status
Available
Call number
Publication
New York: International Publishers, c1948; This printing, 1993
Physical description
48 p.; 19.1 cm
ISBN
0717802418 / 9780717802418
Language
Original language
German
Description
Politics. Nonfiction. HTML: Commonly known as The Communist Manifesto, the Manifesto of the Communist Party (in German "Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei") has been one of the most influential political documents in the world, having a far-reaching effect on twentieth-century political organization. In this 1848 publication, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels expound the program and purpose of the Communist League who commissioned the work. A critique of the Capitalist order of the time, the Manifesto gives a vision of a stateless, classless society, achieved through the overthrow of bourgeois social systems and the abolition of private property - the revolution of the proletariat..