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Author: Engels, Friedrich

Marxism & Communism

Published on 6 November 2014 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Penguin Pocket Hardbacks’ series.

Hardback | 432 pages
185 x 111 x 28 | 364g

A rousing call to arms whose influence is still felt today, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ The Communist Manifesto is edited with an introduction by Gareth Stedman-Jones in Penguin Classics. Marx and Engels’s revolutionary summons to the working classes, The Communist Manifesto is one of the most important political theories ever formulated. After four years of collaboration, they produced an incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage a society without classes, private property or a state, arguing that the exploitation of industrial workers will eventually lead to a revolution in which Capitalism is overthrown. This vision provided the theoretical ba