The Communist Manifesto

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First published as the 1848 revolutions erupted throughout Europe, this revolutionary political tract articulated an entirely new understanding of governments and history. The manifesto outlined a radical new political agenda that would lead to an equal and classless society. In one of the most powerful political pamphlets ever written, Marx and Engels predicted that Europe was on the verge of revolution. This book influenced the course of 20th-century history more than any other single work.

Karl Marx was born in Prussia in 1818 but spent most of his adult life in London. He developed a revolutionary interpretation of economics and history that he expounded in Das Kapital. The philosopher Friedrich Engels was born in 1820 and worked closely with Marx after the publication of his own theories in The Condition of the Working Class in England. Marx died in 1883 and Engels in 1895 - both of them before they could see a version of their theories put into practice in the Russian Revolution of 1917.