The Communist Manifesto E-Book

Karl Marx And Friedrich Engels

• Herausgeber: GIANLUCA
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2017

Beschreibung

The Communist Manifesto has been recognized as one of the most influential political manuscripts in the world. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism, rather than a prediction of the potential future forms of communism. The book contains the theories of Marx and Engels on the nature of society and politics, which in its own words: "The history of all society so far exists is the story of class struggles". It also briefly presents its ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism and, finally, by communism.

Leseprobe

THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

First digital edition 2017 by Gianluca Ruffini

TABLE OF CONTENTS

MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY

- I.BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS

- II.PROLETARIANS AND COMMUNISTS

- IIISOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST LITERATURE

- IV.POSITION OF THE COMMUNISTS IN RELATION TO THE VARIOUS EXISTING OPPOSITION PARTIES

MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY

A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.

Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?

Two things result from this fact.

- I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European Powers to be itself a Power.

- II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.

To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London, and sketched the following Manifesto, to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages.

- I.BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS

The history of all hitherto existing societies is the history of class struggles.

Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.