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"Un espectro se cierne sobre Europa: el espectro del comunismo. Contra este espectro se han conjurado en santa jauría todas las potencias de la vieja Europa, el Papa y el zar, Metternich y Guizot, los radicales franceses y los polizontes alemanes..."
Un espectro trabaja sin descanso y en silencio en campos calcinados. Camina arrastrando los pies a través de las polvorientas plazas del pueblo. Trabaja como un burro entre la mugre y la monotonía de las fábricas. Revisa la basura en callejones de barriadas. Flota sobre cubículos de edificios de oficinas, hilera tras hilera. Donde sea que el capitalismo haya hecho sus desfiles, nuestro espectro los siguió de manera callada. Se afinca entre los excluidos, los empobrecidos, los explotados. Da testimonio de millones de gritos silenciosos. Avistamos ese fantasma, cada vez más.
Pero, ¿por qué una edición gráfica? Sencillamente: para reanimar el texto. Para que esté disponible para un público nuevo. Para ayudarnos a comprender mejor nuestro anhelo innato por la promesa de un mañana mejor y para volver a familiarizarnos con un panfleto político que forjó las bases ideológicas de una de las épocas más idealistas y a la vez más represivas en la historia de la humanidad.
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Friedrich Engels (28 November 1820 - 5 August 1895) was a German philosopher, communist, social scientist, journalist and businessman.[4] His father was an owner of large textile factories in Salford, England and in Barmen, Prussia (what is now in Wuppertal, Germany).
Engels developed what is now known as Marxist theory together with Karl Marx and in 1845 he published The Condition of the Working Class in England, based on personal observations and research in English cities. In 1848, Engels co-authored The Communist Manifesto with Marx and also authored and co-authored (primarily with Marx) many other works. Later, Engels supported Marx financially, allowing him to do research and write Das Kapital. After Marx's death, Engels edited the second and third volumes of Das Kapital. Additionally, Engels organised Marx's notes on the Theories of Surplus Value, which he later published as the "fourth volume" of Capital.[5] In 1884, he published The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State on the basis of Marx's ethnographic research.
Engels died in London on 5 August 1895, at the age of 74 of laryngeal cancer and following cremation his ashes were scattered off Beachy Head, near Eastbourne.
Engels was born on 28 November 1820 in Barmen, Rhine Province, Prussia (now Wuppertal, Germany) as eldest son of Friedrich Engels Sr. (1796-1860) and of Elisabeth "Elise" Franziska Mauritia von Haar (1797-1873).[6] The wealthy Engels family owned large cotton-textile mills in Barmen and Salford, both expanding industrial metropoles. Friedrich's parents were devout Pietist Protestants[4]and they raised their children accordingly.
