Karl Marx

Friedrich Engels

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The Communist Manifesto

Stop What You’re Doing and Read…Books That Changed the World: The Origin of Species & The Communist Manifesto

The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State

Revolution and War

The Condition of the Working Class in England

Selected Journalism of Karl Marx

Dispatches for the New York Tribune

Volume II

Capital

Volume III

Early Writings

Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy

Grundrisse

Volume I

The Portable Karl Marx

A brilliant piece of writing, easily accessible, and which really did change the world

Contemporary, ironic, cool, biting writing style

Irreverent, mocking, sarcastic, witty, savage, provocative and with a driving, irresistible argument

As a force for change, its influence has been surpassed only by the Bible. As a piece of writing, it is a masterpiece

A short work, written in punchy, accessible style. It can be read in an hour.

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID AARONOVITCH 
 
The Communist Manifesto was first published in London, by two young men in their late twenties, in 1848. Its impact reverberated across the globe and throughout the next century, and it has come to be recognised as one of the most important political texts ever written. Maintaining that the history of all societies is a history of class struggle, the manifesto proclaims that communism is the only route to equality, and is a call to action aimed at the proletariat. It is an essential read for anyone seeking to understand our modern political landscape.

The second best-selling book ever published which heralded a seismic change in the world's political and social landscapes.

Karl Marx was born in 1818 in Trier, Prussia. While attending university in Berlin he was influenced by the ideas of the philosopher Hegel and his critics, the Young Hegelians, but Marx eventually rejected both schools of thought. He quickly earned the reputation of a revolutionary and left Germany for Paris, where he met his lifelong friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels. Together they wrote and published The Communist Manifesto, which was published in 1848, just before the first wave of revolutions in France. Marx returned to Germany but his radical activities led to expulsion, whereupon he moved to London. There, Marx and Engels collaborated on further works on economics and contemporary politics. Marx also wrote his major treatise, Das Kapital, but only the first volume was published in his lifetime. Marx died in poverty on March 14, 1883, and was buried in Highgate Cemetery. 
Friedrich Engels (1820-95) was the son of a Manchester factory owner. He wrote several groundbreaking essays on contemporary social and political conditions in Britain, including The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845), in which he criticised the working conditions and treatment of the urban poor. After Karl Marx' death, Engels completed and published the last two volumes of Das Kapital (1884, 1894) from his friend's surviving papers.

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