Includes the complete Communist Manifesto and substantial extracts from On the Jewish Question, the German Ideology, Grundrisse, and Capital, a broad representation of his letters, and lesser-known works, especially his long-unavailable, ...

In later times, this work was recognized as one of the world's most influential political documents.

"The Communist Manifesto" is an 1848 political document by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

As Eric Hobsbawm argues in his acute and elegant introduction to this modern edition, in such times The Communist Manifesto emerges as a work of great prescience and power despite being written over a century and a half ago.

This Bantam Classic edition of The Communist Manifesto includes Marx and Engels's historic 1872 and 1882 prefaces, and Engels's notes and prefaces to the 1883 and 1888 editions.

The book serves to summarize the theories of Marx and Engels and is known in the present-day as one of the cmost influential books of all time.

Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

This book will show readers why. Phil Gasper is a professor of philosophy at Notre Dame de Namur University in northern California.

"The Communist Manifesto" by Karl Marx sits atop a larger body of work which forms Marx's philosophy.