The Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) is an 1848 pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London just as the Revolutions of 1848 began to erupt the Manifesto was later recognised as one of the world''s most influential political documents. This political document explains the material conception of history and presents their theories and ideas of how in due course socialism would replace the capitalist society of the time. It discusses the relationship between the proletarians and the bourgeoisie the Communists and the proletarians and the Communists and other opposition parties. Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher economist historian sociologist political theorist journalist and socialist revolutionary. Marx completed his doctoral thesis titled The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature in 1841 and submitted it to the University of Jena. He was awarded a Ph.D. in April 1841. In 1844 Marx befriended Friedrich Engels the German socialist and became a revolutionary communist. Marx’s The Poverty of Philosophy was published in 1847. Marx and Engels published The Communist Manifesto a political pamphlet summarizing their theories about the nature of society and politics in 1848. One of the most important political documents of the world this monumental text is highly influential and continues to remain widely read. The first volume Capital Volume I of his magnum opus Capital (Das Kapital) was published in 1867. Marx continued to work on the remaining two volumes which were published after his death by Engels. Capital Volume II was published in 1885 and Capital Volume III in 1894. Considered to be his masterwork Capital has been translated into all the major languages.