Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11571 in Books
• Published on: 2005-12-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 86 pages

Synopsis
This title is the classic communist party manifesto which started this one and a half decade political movement. The seven rarely published prefaces, mostly written by Frederick Engels after the death of Karl Marx, are included making this publication the complete communist manifesto. Although this title is known as one of the most famous left-wing propagandist publications, it serves as a lesson for thos of all political philosophys. The Communist Manifesto should be required reading when studying political science, radicalism and radical political thought.

Customer Reviews

The Prefaces are important
I give this three stars because there is another edition, possibly from penguin which has a more literary introductory piece which is part biography of the authors and part biography of the books, ie describes popular styles of writing at the time which influenced Marx.

The prefaces are important though because in at least one of them Engels describes how the book is not as relevent as it once was, particularly its twelve point list of demands, such as universal education (a moderate demand and pretty much necessary for a developed economy today).

It lends itself to proper contextualising of the book, being in posession of the whole story.