The Communist Manifesto
During the decade of the 1840s, the word "communist" came into general use to describe those who hailed the left-wing of the Jacobin Club of the French Revolution as their ideological forefathers. In 1847, the Communist League was founded in London. The League asked Karl Marx and Frederick Engels to draft "The Communist Manifesto", which was adopted by the league and published in 1848. The "Communist Manifesto" included a number of views of the role of the nation in the implementation of the manifesto. The preamble notes that "The Communist Manifesto" arose from Europeans from various nations coming together in London to publish their shared views, aims and tendencies. Chapter one then discusses how the rise of the bourgeoisie has led to globalisation and the place of national issues: