description: Regarded as one of the most influential political tracts ever written, The Communist Manifesto serves as the foundation document of the Marxist movement. 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 exploitative and antithetical to freedom.This Norton Critical Edition offers a complete historical and philosophical introduction to Marx's "Manifesto of the Communist Party." It will help both students making their first approach to Marx's thought and those ready to study the "Manifesto" in more depth.
language: English
title: The Communist Manifesto
titlecomplete: The Communist Manifesto
genres: Theory, Politics, Political Science, Philosophy, German Literature, Nonfiction, Classics, Economics, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 156485
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company