The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, translated by Gareth Stedman Jones / ISBN 9780141395906 / small 432-page hardback from the Penguin Pocket Hardbacks series / cover by Coralie Bickford-Smith *** A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' The Communist Manifesto is edited with an introduction by Gareth Stedman-Jones in Penguin Classics. Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons to the working classes, The Communist Manifesto is one of the most important political theories ever formulated. After four years of collaboration, they produced an incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage a society without classes, private property or a state, arguing that the exploitation of industrial workers will eventually lead to a revolution in which Capitalism is overthrown. This vision provided the theoretical basis of political systems in Russia, China, Cuba and Eastern Europe, affecting the lives of milli