Simplify the following text for a Grade 11 native English-speaking person.
Original: The Communist Manifesto , originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party is a short 1848 book written by the German Marxist political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels .
Simplified: The Communist Manifesto ( German : Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei ) is a short book . It was written by the German Marxist political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848 .