The Communist manifesto

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Title:

The Communist manifesto

Uniform Title:

Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei. English

Author:

Marx, Karl, 1818-1883.

ISBN:

9780853450191

Publication Information:

New York, Monthly Review Press [1964]

Physical Description:

v, 113 pages 23 cm.

Series title(s):

Modern reader paperbacks.

General Note:

The Communist manifesto is a reproduction of the limited edition of 1933.

The Principles of communism was translated from the text of the Marx-Engels Gesamtausgabe, 1st division, v. 6, pt. 1, p. 503-522.

"The Communist manifesto after 100 years" was first published in the Monthly review, Aug., 1949.

Contents:

The Communist manifesto / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- Principles of communism / Friedrich Engels ; trans. by Paul M. Sweezy -- The Communist manifesto after 100 years / Paul M. Sweezy and Leo Huberman.

Summary:

Written in 1848 as a treatise on economic, political, and social conditions of the working class.

Subject(s):

Communism.

Added Author:

Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895,

Engels, Friedrich, 1820-1895. Grundsätze des Kommunismus. English.

Sweezy, Paul M. (Paul Marlor), 1910-2004. Communist manifesto after 100 years.

Added Title:

Principles of communism.

Communist manifesto after 100 years.

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Searching... Monmouth Public Library	335.4 Marx, K. 1964	Searching... Unknown

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This definitive edition of the Communist Manifesto , prepared for its 150th anniversary, includes a foreword by Marxist scholar Paul M. Sweezy, co-editor of Monthly Review , the full text of the Communist Manifesto , in a distinctive and pleasing hand-set typeface, the important catechism Principles of Communism , drafted by Engels in 1847 as a basis for the Manifesto , and " The Communist Manifesto After 150 Years ," a far-reaching interpretive essay by Ellen Meiksins Wood, co-editor of Monthly Review .

Author Notes

Karl Heinrich Marx, one of the fathers of communism, was born on May 5, 1818 in Trier, Germany. He was educated at a variety of German colleges, including the University of Jena.

He was an editor of socialist periodicals and a key figure in the Working Man's Association. Marx co-wrote his best-known work, "The Communist Manifesto" (1848), with his friend, Friedrich Engels. Marx's most important work, however, may be "Das Kapital" (1867), an analysis of the economics of capitalism.

He died on March 14, 1883 in London, England.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (2)

Choice Review

The Communist Manifesto is one of the most famous works of political theory, and also one of the most often reprinted. In the past 20 years alone, at least four scholarly editions of the Manifesto have appeared (Norton, Penguin, Signet, and Verso). Isaac (Indiana Univ., Bloomington) gives readers one more, prompting a question: why? This volume offers two distinctive contributions. First, it contains not only the main text (in the standard Moore translation), but also several "early drafts" penned by Engels and the many prefaces to the different language editions. Second, this volume, part of the "Rethinking the Western Tradition" series, focuses not on situating the Manifesto in its historical context but rather on the reception and relevance of the text from 1848 to the present. Five essays by leading scholars in different fields engage with it as a work of political theory (Isaac), social theory (Saskia Sassen), and moral philosophy (Steven Lukes), and consider its historical reception and influence (Stephen Eric Bronner and Vladimir Tismaneanu). Isaac's and Lukes's essays are excellent, yet the volume's audience is ambiguous--some essays speak to the general reader, others to the specialist. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate and research collections. J. Church University of Houston

Library Journal Review

This year's crop of Penguin "Great Ideas" volumes offers another eclectic dozen works that shaped society from the ancient Greeks to the 20th century. The books are fairly no frills, but the price isn't bad. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Introduction	p. vii
Principal Dates in the Life of Marx	p. xxx
The Communist Manifesto	p. 1
The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (Selections)	p. 47
The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation (Selections from Chapter 25, Volume I, Capital)	p. 65
Bibliography	p. 95

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