The Communist Manifesto

Published in 1848, this short pamphlet by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels has shaped arguments about class, labour and political power ever since. The text sets out a reading of history as a sequence of struggles between social classes, describes the rise of industrial capitalism and states the political programme its authors drew from that analysis. It is brief enough to read in a sitting yet dense enough to reward annotation, and the Penguin Classics edition adds editorial material that situates it among the upheavals of nineteenth-century Europe. Why it earns a place on the shelf: • One of the most widely read political texts in any language • A compact statement of the authors' account of class and industry • Editorial apparatus placing the pamphlet in its 1848 context • A core primary source for politics, history and sociology syllabuses Aimed at students of political thought, history readers and anyone examining the roots of modern debate, stocked by Boipoka.