Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels

The Communist Manifesto - Unabridged (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Theis, Kevin

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"The Communist Manifesto" is one of the most important and influential political documents ever written. Originally published as a pamphlet in London in 1848, it was written by the German philosophers and political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels as a means of codifying and clearly expressing the goals and tenets of the Communist movement.

After briefly making it's way through France and Germany - and inspiring several abortive uprisings in both countries - the document lapsed into obscurity for almost twenty years. But as Marx and Engels became more and more influential in the workers' movements across Europe, the Manifesto was re-published and re-translated, influencing socialist and communist movements around the world, most particularly in Russia and China.

The central theme of the Manifesto posits that capitalism is exploitative to workers and creates a bourgeoisie class of elites whose purpose is to amass more capitol and maintain their workforce in a subservient, dehumanized state. The alternative they propose is a classless society where private property is abolished, industry is owned and operated collectively by the state, education and healthcare are provided free to the masses and child labor outlawed.

Both hailed as a seminal political document and vilified as a poisonous piece of propaganda, "The Communist Manifesto" remains one of the most important political documents ever published and it is presented here in its original and unabridged format, as translated in 1888.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ft. Raphael Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 39
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798892820721
• Artikelnr.: 70454939

Autorenporträt

Karl Marx (1818-1883) was a German philosopher, historian, political theorist, journalist and revolutionary socialist. Born in Prussia, he received his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Jena in Germany and became an ardent follower of German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. Marx was already producing political and social philosophic works when he met Friedrich Engels in Paris in 1844. The two became lifelong colleagues and soon collaborated on "The Communist Manifesto," which they published in London in 1848. Expelled from Belgium and Germany, Marx moved to London in 1849 where he continued organizing workers and produced (among other works) the foundational political document Das Kapital. A hugely influential and important political philosopher and social theorist, Marx died stateless in 1883 and was buried in Highgate Cemetery in London.