The Communist Manifesto E-Book

Karl Marx

• Herausgeber: Publisher s24148
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), often referred to as The Communist Manifesto, was first published on February 21, 1848, and is one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League's purposes and program. The Manifesto suggested a course of action for a proletarian (working class) revolution to overthrow the bourgeois social order and to eventually bring about a classless and stateless society, and the abolition of private property.

Leseprobe

Manifesto of the Communist Party

Karl Marx

(Translator: Samuel Moore)

 Published by OPU, 2017

Table of Contents

Manifesto of the Communist Party

Introduction

Chapter 1 Bourgeois and Proletarians

Chapter 2 Proletarians and Communists

Chapter 3 Socialist and Communist Literature

1. Reactionary Socialism

2. Conservative or Bourgeois Socialism

3. Critical-Utopian Socialism and Communism

Chapter 4 Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties

Chapter 5 Appendix A: Prefaces to various Language Editions

1. 1872 German Edition

2. 1882 Russian Edition

3. 1883 German Edition

4. 1888 English Edition

5. 1890 German Edition

6. 1892 Polish Edition

7. 1893 Italian Edition

Chapter 6 Appendix B: Definitions

1. Burgeoisie

2. Guild-master

3. Commune

4. Home Colonies

Introduction

A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.

Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

Two things result from this fact:

Communism is already acknowledged by all European powers to be itself a power.

It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the spectre of communism with a manifesto of the party itself.

To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London and sketched the following manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.

Chapter1 Bourgeois and Proletarians

The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.