The Communist Manifesto (English Edition)

Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels

First published in 1848, „The Communist Manifesto“ not only shaped the labor movement of the 19th and 20th centuries, but also became a central point of reference for left-wing theories and political movements around the world.

In clear and forceful language, Marx and Engels examine social class relations and articulate their vision of a classless, communist society.
Karl Marx / Friedrich Engels.

The Communist Manifesto. Erstdruck in deutscher Sprache (First published in German): Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei. Office der Bildungs-Gesellschaft für Arbeiter von J. E. Burghard, London 1848. Autorisierte englische Übersetzung, herausgegeben und kommentiert von Friedrich Engels, 1888. (Authorized English Translation, edited and annotated by Friedrich Engels, 1888.)

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Durchgesehener Neusatz; der Text dieser Ausgabe folgt (Revised typesetting;t his edition follows the text of): Manifesto of the Communist Party, Labor News Co., New York 1908.

ISBN: 9783753801964
November 2025 – 56 Seiten
Vollständige Neuausgabe, Göttingen 2025 (Complete new edition, Göttingen 2025)

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Famous Quotes

“A specter is haunting Europe—the specter of Communism.”

Manifesto, p. 13 of the LIWI edition

“The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”

Chapter I “Bourgeois and Proletarians”, p. 14

“The executive of the modern State is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.”

Chapter I “Bourgeois and Proletarians”, p. 16

“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations.”

Chapter I “Bourgeois and Proletarians”, p. 16

“All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life and his relations with his kind.”

Chapter I “Bourgeois and Proletarians”, p. 17

“National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures, there arises a world literature.”

Chapter I “Bourgeois and Proletarians”, p. 18

“In one word, it creates a world after its own image.”

Chapter I “Bourgeois and Proletarians”, p. 19

“But every class struggle is a political struggle.”

Chapter I “Bourgeois and Proletarians”, p. 25

“What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable.”

Chapter I “Bourgeois and Proletarians”, p. 29

“In this sense the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”

Chapter II “Proletarians and Communists”, p. 31

“Capital is therefore not a personal, it is a social power.”

Chapter II “Proletarians and Communists”, p. 32

“The workingmen have no country. We cannot take from them what they have not got.”

Chapter II “Proletarians and Communists”, p. 37

“The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.”

Chapter II “Proletarians and Communists”, p. 38

“The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.”

Chapter IV “Position of the Communists”, p. 56

“Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries unite!”

Chapter IV “Position of the Communists”, p. 56