The Communist Manifesto
Marx's famous treatise
The Communist Manifesto is an 1848 political pamphlet by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, outlining the theory that history is driven by class struggle between workers and owners.
It calls for the overthrow of capitalism and establishment of a classless society.
The text remains foundational to socialist and communist movements: Have you actually read The Communist Manifesto?
- MarxGerman economic philosopher
- EngelsGerman socialist theorist
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
- working classManual laborers collectively
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
ruling class · revolution · social revolution · class struggle · class consciousness · capitalism · private property · wage labor · socialism · workers · uprising · dictatorship of the proletariat · 1848 · labor · oppression · comrades · red · hammer
- Great BooksMeditations, Leviathan, The Prince, Utopia, Walden
- Political TextsLeviathan, The Prince, The Social Contract, Federalist Papers, The Federalist Papers
- German WorksFaust, The Tin Drum, Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, The Metamorphosis
- economicssupply and demand, inflation, GDP, GNP, gross domestic product
- philosophyethics, logic, metaphysics, ontology, epistemology
- banned books1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lady Chatterley
The Communist ManifestoAtlas Shrugged
Objectivist epic novel
The Fountainhead · laissez-faire economics · Austrian economics · Das Kapital
communist, manifesto, commune, communism, communal, communally, communes, communing, communed