After some four years of collaboration Marx and Engels produced this account of their conception of Communism, in which they envisage a society without classes, private property or a state. The Manifesto claims that the increasing exploitation of industrial workers will produce a global economic crisis, leading to a revolution in which Capitalism is overthrown by the new working class. This vision of Communism provided the theoretical basis of the political systems in Russia, China, Cuba and Eastern Europe, affecting the lives of millions throughout most of the last century.
Yet even as we get further from the Cold War and its political landscape, The Communist Manifesto remains a classic text: as a powerful work of literature, as a fundamental historical document and, most importantly, as an unrivalled depiction of the limitless power of global Capitalism - a concern that still has great relevance today.

'Il Manifesto è un testo formidabile che sa alternare toni apocalittici e ironia, slogan efficaci e spiegazioni chiare e (se proprio la società capitalistica intende vendicarsi dei fastidi che queste non molte pagine le hanno procurato) dovrebbe essere religiosamente analizzato ancora oggi nelle scuole per pubblicitari'. (Umberto Eco).

This work is a graphic treatment of the first great democratic struggle which heralded the dawn of the modern era. Engels analyzes the social and economic forces which brought about the peasant revolt of 1525 and its role in the Reformation. He portrays vividly the contrasting figures of Thomas Muenzer and Martin Luther, in relation to the revolutionary peasants and to the princes. The book has an enduring theoretical interest, as one of the earliest discussions of the revolutionary potential of the peasantry. Illustrated with drawings and woodcuts of the time.

'La religione cristiana è nata nella piena luce della storia e non vi è nulla, nelle sue origini e nel suo sviluppo, che non possa essere spiegato': così scrive lo storico delle religioni Ambrogio Donini presentando questo volume che raccoglie tre scritti di Engels sulla questione delle origini del cristianesimo tra il 1883 e il 1895. Il più importante di essi 'Per la storia del cristianesimo primitivo', che riassume oltre cinquant'anni di ricerche sul tema, costituisce un punto di rifermento ancora per gli studiosi di storia delle religioni.

A beautiful new anniversary edition of the classic/infamous Manifesto, which Charles H Kerr have kept in print continuously since 1902. This is the authorized English translation by Samuel Moore, edited, introduced and annotated by Engels, and with a brilliant new introduction by Robin D G Kelley.

Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto, Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote The German Ideology in 1845 with friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels expounding a new political worldview, including positions on materialism, labor, production, alienation, the expansion of capitalism, class conflict, revolution, and eventually communism. They chart the course of 'true' socialism based on Hegel's dialectic, while criticizing the ideas of Bruno Bauer, Max Stirner and Ludwig Feuerbach. Marx expanded his criticism of the latter in his now famous Theses on Feuerbach, found after Marx's death and published by Engels in 1888. Introduction to the Critique of Political Economy, also found among the posthumous papers of Marx, is a fragment of an introduction to his main works. Combining these three works, this volume is essential for an understanding of Marxism.

The Communist Manifesto, drafted on the eve of the 1848 revolutions, is the most brilliant and incisive political text ever written; a work of great literary power as well as historical insight. Eric Hobsbawm, whose writing has brilliantly described the century and a half of history that has been both shaped and illuminated by the Manifesto, presents it here.

As the 'age of extremes' draws to an end and capitalism seems everywhere to be triumphant, as it did one hundred and fifty years ago, Eric Hobsbawm critically appraises a work which, he argues, is now more timely than ever. Hobsbawm notes the curious fact that the Manifesto remained a subterranean text for many decades and did not circulate on a mass scale, or achieve a canonical status, until comparatively recently. He argues that only the complete unfolding of capitalism on a global scale in recent times allows us to take the full measure of Marx and Engels's truly astounding mixture of passion, science and poetry.

This definitive edition of the Communist Manifesto, prepared for its 150th anniversary, includes a foreword by Marxist scholar Paul M. Sweezy, co-editor of Monthly Review, the full text of the Communist Manifesto, in a distinctive and pleasing hand-set typeface, the important catechism Principles of Communism, drafted by Engels in 1847 as a basis for the Manifesto, and 'The Communist Manifesto After 150 Years,' a far-reaching interpretive essay by Ellen Meiksins Wood, co-editor of Monthly Review.

Dopo l'ondata di celebrazioni che sembrano averlo ormai ampiamente 'consumato', viene proposta in questo volume un'analisi senza schemi fideistici del 'Manifesto' di Marx e Engels. L'introduzione di Edoardo Sanguineti non cede ai significati ora sacri ora terrificanti con cui questo libro è stato accolto, ma intende metterne a nudo il messaggio più vero.

Dopo l'ondata di celebrazioni che sembrano averlo ormai ampiamente 'consumato', viene proposta in questo volume un'analisi senza schemi fideistici del 'Manifesto' di Marx e Engels. L'introduzione di Edoardo Sanguineti non cede ai significati ora sacri ora terrificanti con cui questo libro è stato accolto, ma intende metterne a nudo il messaggio più vero.

Das Kapital, Karl Marx's masterwork, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth century. From Kapital sprung the economic and political systems that in our time dominated half the earth and for half a century kept the world on the brink of war. Even today, one billion Chinese remain in the power of the Marxist system.
Yet this important and powerful work has been passed over by many readers frustrated by Marx's difficult style and his preoccupation with nineteenth-century events of little relevance to today's reader.
Now Serge Levitsky presents a new revised version of this masterpiece, carefully retranslated for the modern reader and abridged to emphasize the political and philosophical core of Marx's work, while trimming away much that is now unimportant.
Here then is a fresh and highly readable version of a work whose ideas have influenced the lives of nearly every person alive today.

"A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism." So begins one of history's most important documents, a work of such magnitude that it has forever changed not only the scope of world politics, but indeed the course of human civilization. The Communist Manifesto was written in Friedrich Engels's clear, striking prose and declared the earth-shaking ideas of Karl Marx. Upon publication in 1848, it quickly became the credo of the poor and oppressed who longed for a society "in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."

The Communist Manifesto contains the seeds of Marx's more comprehensive philosophy, which continues to inspire influential economic, political, social, and literary theories. But the Manifesto is most valuable as an historical document, one that led to the greatest political upheaveals of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and to the establishment of the Communist governments that until recently ruled half the globe.

This Bantam Classic edition of The Communist Manifesto includes Marx and Engels's historic 1872 and 1882 prefaces, and Engels's notes and prefaces to the 1883 and 1888 editions.