The Communist Manifesto
$17.09
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
23 July 2002
Summary
The Communist Manifesto: A Revolutionary Summons
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140447576 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0140447571 |
| Series: | Penguin Classics |
| Author: | Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 23 July 2002 |
| Weight: | 230g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 127mm x 196mm |
About The Author
Karl Marx
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.
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