The Communist Manifesto

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID AARONOVITCHThe Communist Manifesto was first published in London, by two young men in their late twenties, in 1848. Zusammenfassung WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY DAVID AARONOVITCHThe Communist Manifesto was first published in London, by two young men in their late twenties, in 1848.

Product details

• Authors: Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx, Karl Engels Marx
• Assisted by: Yanis Varoufakis (Introduction)
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9780099540748
• ISBN: 978-0-09-954074-8
• No. of pages: 96
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Vintage Classics; Vintage Classics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Political leaders and leadership, Marxism & Communism, Political Manifestos, Political parties and party platforms, Revolutionary groups and movements