The Communist Manifesto
$26.11
- Hardcover
432 pages
- Release Date
21 October 2014
Summary
The Communist Manifesto: A Call to Revolution
The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels’s revolutionary summons to the working classes, changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition.
A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ The Communist Manifesto is a landmark text. After four years of collaboration, they produced an incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage a society without classes,…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141395906 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0141395907 |
| Series: | Penguin Pocket Hardbacks |
| Author: | Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Gareth Stedman Jones |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 21 October 2014 |
| Weight: | 370g |
| Dimensions: | 173mm x 110mm x 26mm |
About The Author
Friedrich Engels
Karl Marx was born in Trier, Germany and studied law at Bonn and Berlin. In 1848, with Freidrich Engels, he finalized The Communist Manifesto. 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 Engels 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 include Outcast London and Languages of Class.
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