The Communist Manifesto
Contents:
The Communist Manifesto by Marx and Engels - introduction
Introduction
The Manifesto of the Communist Party, written by Marx and Engels in 1848, begins: "A spectre is Haunting Europe – the spectre of Communism." Today this spectre, or ghost, is once again rising.
The ‘Communist’ Countries
The word 'Communist' has changed its meaning since Marx and Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto over 150 years ago.
The Communist Manifesto Today
The Communist Manifesto is "almost uncannily prescient about globalisation's costs and benefits", Time Magazine suddenly admitted, one day early in 2009.
The Working Class
With remarkable prescience, then, the Manifesto demonstrates that capitalism, due to its internal contradictions, inevitably moves from crisis to crisis.
The Revolutionary Party
Why has the working class not been successful up to now in ending capitalism, so that it can no longer threaten lives and livelihoods again?
The Need for a New Mass Party of the Working Class
Marx and Engels life’s work consisted in building an international, mass party of the working class, which would overthrow capitalism.
Manifesto of the Communist Party by Marx and Engels
Proletarians and communists – Part two
In what relation do the Communists stand to the proletarians as a whole? The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to the other working-class parties.
150 years of the Communist Manifesto
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