Communist Manifesto
Workers' political treatise
The Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, published in 1848, that outlines the theory of class struggle and calls for the overthrow of capitalism by the working class.
It remains one of the most influential political documents in history, introducing concepts like the bourgeoisie and proletariat that became central to socialist and communist movements.
The phrase have you read the Communist Manifesto often signals someone's political awakening or leftist sympathies.
- Bolshevik Revolution1917 communist coup in Russia
- socialismCommunal economic control
- Industrial RevolutionEra of mechanized production
- means of productionTools and facilities for manufacturing
- wage laborWork exchanged for payment
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Communist ManifestoAtlas Shrugged
Objectivist epic novel
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Philosophy of incremental change
reformism · incrementalism · democratic socialism · social democracy · revisionism
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