The Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto stands as one of the worlds most powerful and influential political tracts of all time. Advocating the common ownership of capital and the means of production Communism seeks to remedy the exploitation and class divisions that underpin Capitalism. Written in some haste in 1848 The Manifesto was commissioned by the Communist League laying out the Leagues purposes and program. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles ...The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES UNITE!