The Communist Manifesto

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Part I: Introduction 1. Preface 2. The Reception of the Manifesto 3. The "Spectre of Communism" 4. The Communist League 5. Engels' Contribution 6. Marx's Contribution: Prologue 7. The Young Hegelians (i) Hegel and Hegelianism (ii) The Battle over Christianity and the Emergence of the Young Hegelians 8. From Republicanism to Communism 9. Political Economy and "The True Natural History of Man" 10. The Impact of Stirner 11. Communism (i) The Contribution of Adam Smith (ii) The History of Law and Property (iii) The Contemporary Discussion of Communism 12. Conclusion 13. A Guide to Further Reading Part II: Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto A Note on the Text Preface to the German Edition of 1872 Preface to the Russian Edition of 1882 Preface to the German Edition of 1883 Preface to the English Edition of 1888 Preface to the German Edition of 1890 Preface to the Polish Edition of 1892 Preface to the Italian Edition of 1893 The Manifesto of the Communist Party 1. Bourgois and Proletarians 2. Proletarians and Communists 3. Socialist and Communist Literature I. Reactionary Socialism a. Feudal Socialism b. Petty-Bourgeois Socialism c. German, or "True," Socialism II. Conservative, or Bourgeois, Socialism III. Critical-Utopian Socialism and Communism 4. Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties

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L.M. Findlay's elegant new translation is a work of textual and historical scholarship. Few books have had as much of an impact on modern history as The Communist Manifesto. Since it was first published in 1848, it has become the rallying cry for revolutionary movements around the world. This new Broadview edition draws on the 1888 Samuel Moore translation supervised by Engels--the standard English version in Marxist discourse--and on the original Helen Macfarlane translation into English of 1850.

Throughout, Findlay draws on a variety of disciplines and maintains a broad-ranging perspective. Among the appendices are Engels' "Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith," correspondence and journalism of Marx and Engels, ten illustrations, and eight additional influential political manifestos from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.