num_pages: 143
description: Originally published on the eve of the 1848 European revolutions, The Communist Manifesto is a condensed and incisive account of the worldview Marx and Engels developed during their hectic intellectual and political collaboration. Formulating the principles of dialectical materialism, they believed that labor creates wealth, hence capitalism is exploitive and antithetical to freedom.
language: English
title: The Communist Manifesto
titlecomplete: The Communist Manifesto
genres: Classics, History, Philosophy, Economics, Sociology, German Literature, Nonfiction, Theory, Political Science, Politics
ratings_count: 156454
publisher: Pocket Books