THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO

Category Business & Economics
Format Paperback
Imprint Rupa
Price 95

ISBN: 978-93-5520-096-9
Pages: 96 pages
Date: 10th November 2021

ABOUT THIS BOOK

‘Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries unite!’
— Karl Marx
The Communist Manifesto came to be a widely read and the most influential text ever written; it became one of the most important political documents of the world. Marx and Engels presented how in due course of time, socialism would end up replacing the prevailing capitalist society. This monumental text discusses communists’ theory of history and their relationship between the proletarians and the bourgeoisie. ‘Workers of the world, unite!’ emerged as the political slogan of The Communist Manifesto.
The book, originally published in 1848 in German, has been banned numerous times and yet remains politically relevant across all times, continuing right from the nineteenth to the
twenty-first century.

AUTHOR OF THE BOOK

Karl Marx (1818–83) was a German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, communist and revolutionary, whose ideas played a significant role in the development of modern communism.
Friedrich Engels (1820–95) was a German philosopher, social scientist, journalist and businessman. He founded Marxist theory together with Karl Marx. In 1848, he co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Karl Marx, though he also authored and co-authored (primarily with Marx) many other works, and later he supported Marx financially to do research and write Das Kapital.