The Communist Manifesto

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Penguin UK, Jul 1, 2004 - Philosophy - 304 pages

'An astonishing masterpiece ... a political classic ... has an almost biblical force' Eric Hobsbawm

The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels' revolutionary 1848 summons to the working classes, is one of the most influential political theories ever formulated. After four years of collaboration, the authors produced this incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage a society without classes, private property or a state. They argue that increasing exploitation of industrial workers will eventually lead to a revolution in which capitalism is overthrown. Their vision transformed the world irrevocably, and remains relevant as a depiction of global capitalism today.

Edited with an Introduction by GARETH STEDMAN JONES

 

Selected pages

Contents

PARTI INTRODUCTION
Preface
The Reception of the Manifesto
The Spectre of Communism
The Communist League
Engels Contribution
Prologue
The Young Hegelians i Hegel and Hegelianism ii The Battle over Christianity and the Emergence of the Young Hegelians
iii The Young Hegelians against the Christian State
From Republicanism to Communism
Political Economy andThe True Natural History of Man
The Impact of Stirner
i The Contribution of Adam Smith
PART II
Copyright

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About the author (2004)

Gareth Stedman Jones (External Editor)
Gareth Stedman Jones is currently Professor of the History of Ideas at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge and taught at the university for many years, becoming Professor of Political Science in 1997. He is the author of Outcast London, Languages of Class and An End to Poverty? as well as being the editor of the Penguin Classics edition of The Communist Manifesto.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Communist Manifesto
Penguin classics
AuthorsFriedrich Engels, Karl Marx
EditorsGareth Stedman Jones, Gareth Jones
PublisherPenguin UK, 2004
ISBN0141913088, 9780141913087
Length304 pages
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Philosophy / Political
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
  
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