Friedrich Engels

The Communist Manifesto

  • The Communist Manifesto

  • The Communist Manifesto is a timeless classic providing intelligent insight into socialism, communism and today’s group identity politics.

    This pocket edition includes a new introduction by the economist and bestselling author of Adults in the Room, Yanis Varoufakis.

    The Communist Manifesto was first published in London in 1848, by two young men in their late twenties. Its impact reverberated across the globe and throughout the next century, and it has come to be recognised as one of the most important political texts ever written. Maintaining that the history of all societies is a history of class struggle, the manifesto proclaims that communism is the only route to equality, and is a call to action aimed at the proletariat. It is an essential read for anyone seeking to understand our modern political landscape.

The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
  • Karl Marx
  • Friedrich Engels
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
  • Friedrich Engels
  • Karl Marx
Stop What You’re Doing and Read…Books That Changed the World: The Origin of Species & The Communist Manifesto
Stop What You’re Doing and Read…Books That Changed the World: The Origin of Species & The Communist Manifesto
Charles Darwin (and others)
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
Friedrich Engels
The Condition of the Working Class in England
The Condition of the Working Class in England
Friedrich Engels
The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
  • Friedrich Engels
  • Karl Marx
The Condition of the Working Class in England
The Condition of the Working Class in England
Friedrich Engels
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Friedrich Engels (1820-95) was the son of a Manchester factory owner. He wrote several groundbreaking essays on contemporary social and political conditions in Britain, including The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845), in which he criticised the working conditions and treatment of the urban poor. After Karl Marx' death, Engels completed and published the last two volumes of Das Kapital (1884, 1894) from his friend's surviving papers.

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