{"product_id":"the-communist-manifesto-karl-marx-9791043137013","title":"The Communist Manifesto","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Communist Manifesto (\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eGerman: Das Kommunistische Manifest), originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party (Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei), is a political pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It was commissioned by the Communist League and published in London in 1848. The text represents the first and most systematic attempt by the two founders of scientific socialism to codify for wide consumption the historic\u003cstrong\u003eal materialist idea, namely, that \"the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles\", in which social classes are defined by the relationship of people to the means of production. Published am\u003c\/strong\u003eid the Revolutions of 1848 in Europe, the manifesto has become one of the world's most influential political documents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the Manifesto, Marx and Engels combine philosophical materialism with the Hegelian dialectical method in order to analyze the development of European society through its modes of production, including primitive communism, antiquity, feudalism, and capitalism, noting the emergence of a new, dominant class at each stage. The text outlines the relationship between the means of production, relations of pr\u003cem\u003eoduction, forces of production, and mode of production, and posits that changes in society's economic \"base\" affect changes in its \"superstructure\". The authors assert that capitalism is marked by the exploitation of the proletariat (working class of wage labourers) by the ruling bourgeoisie, which is \"constantly revolutionising the instruments [and] relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society\".They argue that capital's need for a flexible labour force dissolves the old relations, and that its global expansion in search of new markets creates \"a world after its own image\".\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Manifesto concludes that capitalism does no\u003c\/em\u003et offer humanity the possibility of self-realization, instead ensuring that human beings are perpetually stunted and alienated. It theorizes that capitalism will bring about its own destruction by polarizing and unifying the proletariat, and predicts that a revolution will lead to the emergence of communism, a classless society in which \"the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all\".[3] Marx and Engels propose the following transitional policies: abolition of private property in land and inheritance; introduction of a progressive income tax; confiscation of emigrants' and rebels' property; nationalisation of credit, communication, and transport; expansion and integration of industry and agriculture; enforcement of universal obligation of labour; provision of universal education; and elimination of child labour.[4] The text ends with three rousing sentences, reworked and popularized into the famous slogan of working-class solidarity: \"Workers of \u003cstrong\u003ethe world, unite! You have nothing to lo\u003c\/strong\u003ese but your chains\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Karl Marx\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9791043137013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Les Prairies Numeriques\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 62\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.15d","brand":"Karl Marx","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48517168529663,"sku":"9791043137013","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_25ac680b-0007-4f93-a3c0-dd870a9c2c03.jpg?v=1778730365","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-communist-manifesto-karl-marx-9791043137013","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}