Manifesto of the Communist Party

Written for a workers' congress in the tumultuous years before Europe's revolutions of 1848, this short, blazing pamphlet lays out a theory of history as class struggle and a direct call to action for the industrial workers of the world. Few texts this brief have been read by so many people, argued over so fiercely, or shaped so much of the century that followed.Marx and Engels's foundational poli...