KARL MARX
 FREDERICK ENGELS 

MANIFESTO
OF THE
COMMUNIST
PARTY

FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS
PEKING 1970

First Edition 1965
Second Printing 1968
Third Printing 1970



Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo,
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 (November 1997)
(Corrected and Updated January 2002)

PREFACE TO THE GERMAN EDITION OF 1872
PREFACE TO THE RUSSIAN EDITION OF 1882
PREFACE TO THE GERMAN EDITION 0F 1883
PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION OF 1888
PREFACE TO THE GERMAN EDITION OF 1890
PREFACE TO THE POLISH EDITION OF 1892
PREFACE TO THE ITALIAN EDITION OF 1893
 

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I.

BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS

30

II.

PROLETARIANS AND COMMUNISTS

47

III.

SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST LITERATURE

60


1.
 
 
 

Reactionary Socialism
  a. Feudal Socialism
  b. Petty-Bourgeois Socialism
  c. German, or "True," Socialism

60
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64


2.

Conservative, or Bourgeois, Socialism

68


3.

Critical-Utopian Socialism and Communism

69

IV.
 

POSITION OF THE COMMUNISTS IN RELATION TO THE
VARIOUS EXISTING OPPOSITION PARTIES


74

NOTES

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KARL MARX
FREDERICK ENGELS


MANIFESTO OF
  THE COMMUNIST PARTY
[
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Written between December 1847
and January 1848
 
First published as a pamphlet
in London in February 1848

Original in German
 
 
 
 


 
 



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