Manifesto of the Communist Party
Manifesto of the Communist Party
y Karl Marx and Frederick Engels
Fe
uary 1848
Written: Late 1847;
First Published: Fe
uary 1848;
Source: Marx/Engels Selected Works, Vol. One, Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1969, pp XXXXXXXXXX;
Translated: Samuel Moore in cooperation with Frederick Engels, 1888;
Transcribed: by Zodiac and Brian Baggins;
Proofed: and co
ected against 1888 English Edition by Andy Blunden 2004;
Copyleft: Marxists Internet Archive (marxists.org) 1987, 2000, 2010. Permission is granted to
distribute this document under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License.
Table of Contents
Editorial Introduction ................................................................................................... XXXXXXXXXX2
Preface to The 1872 German Edition ........................................................................... XXXXXXXXXX4
Preface to The 1882 Russian Edition ........................................................................... XXXXXXXXXX5
Preface to The 1883 German Edition ........................................................................... XXXXXXXXXX6
Preface to The 1888 English Edition............................................................................ XXXXXXXXXX7
Preface to The 1890 German Edition ......................................................................... XXXXXXXXXX10
Preface to The 1892 Polish Edition ............................................................................ XXXXXXXXXX12
Preface to The 1893 Italian Edition............................................................................ XXXXXXXXXX13
Manifesto of the Communist Party............................................................................. XXXXXXXXXX14
I. Bourgeois and Proletarians ..................................................................................... XXXXXXXXXX14
II. Proletarians and Communists ................................................................................ XXXXXXXXXX22
III. Socialist and Communist Literature ..................................................................... XXXXXXXXXX28
1. Reactionary Socialism.................................................................................... XXXXXXXXXX28
A. Feudal Socialism ................................................................................... XXXXXXXXXX28
B. Petty-Bourgeois Socialism .................................................................... XXXXXXXXXX29
C. German or “True” Socialism................................................................. XXXXXXXXXX29
2. Conservative or Bourgeois Socialism ............................................................ XXXXXXXXXX31
3. Critical-Utopian Socialism and Communism................................................. XXXXXXXXXX32
IV. Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties XXXXXXXXXX
Letter from Engels to Marx, 24 November 1847 ....................................................... XXXXXXXXXX35
Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith ................................................................ XXXXXXXXXX36
The Principles of Communism................................................................................... XXXXXXXXXX41
Demands of the Communist Party in Germany.......................................................... XXXXXXXXXX55
The Paris Commune. Address to the International Workingmen’s Association, May XXXXXXXXXX
Endnotes ...........................................................................................................................