Book description
The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels's revolutionary summons
to the working classes, is one of the most important and 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.
This vision provided the theoretical basis of political systems in
Russia, China, Cuba and Eastern Europe, affecting the lives of millions.
The Communist Manifesto still remains a landmark text: a work that
continues to influence and provoke debate on capitalism and class.
Karl Marx was born in Trier, Germany and studied law at Bonn and
Berlin. In 1848, with Freidrich Engels, he finalized the COMMUNIST
MANIFETO. He settled in London, where he studied economics and wrote
the first volume of his major work, DAS KAPITAL(1867, two further
volumes were added in 1884 and 1894). He is buried in Highgate
Cemetery, London.
Friedrich Engles was born in Barmen, Germany. From 1842 he lived
mostly in England.
Gareth Stedman Jones is Professor of Political Science in the
History Faculty of Cambridge University and a Fellow of King's
College, Cambridge. He is also a Director of the Centre of History and
Economics at Cambridge. His publications inlcude Outcast London and
Languages of Class.
