The Communist Manifesto and Other Works

by Karl Marx

A collection of writings by Karl Marx, headed by the work commonly known today as "The Communist Manifesto," the work that articulated Communism as a tangible political application.

25 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 17, 2023

About the author

With the help of Friedrich Engels, German philosopher and revolutionary Karl Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto (1848) and Das Kapital (1867-1894), works, which explain historical development in terms of the interaction of contradictory economic forces, form many regimes, and profoundly influenced the social sciences.

German social theorist Friedrich Engels collaborated with Karl Marx on The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and on numerous other works.

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin in London opposed Communism of Karl Marx with his antithetical anarchy.

Works of Jacques Martin Barzun include Darwin, Marx, Wagner (1941).

The Prussian kingdom introduced a prohibition on Jews, practicing law; in response, a man converted to Protestantism and shortly afterward fathered Karl Marx.

Marx began co-operating with Bruno Bauer on editing Philosophy of Religion of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (see Democritus and Epicurus), doctoral thesis, also engaged Marx, who completed it in 1841. People described the controversial essay as "a daring and original piece... in which Marx set out to show that theology must yield to the superior wisdom." Marx decided to submit his thesis not to the particularly conservative professors at the University of Berlin but instead to the more liberal faculty of University of Jena, which for his contributed key theory awarded his Philosophiae Doctor in April 1841. Marx and Bauer, both atheists, in March 1841 began plans for a journal, entitled Archiv des Atheismus (Atheistic Archives), which never came to fruition.

Marx edited the newspaper Vorwärts! in 1844 in Paris. The urging of the Prussian government from France banished and expelled Marx in absentia; he then studied in Brussels. He joined the league in 1847 and published.

Marx participated the failure of 1848 and afterward eventually wound in London. Marx, a foreigner, corresponded for several publications of United States.
He came in three volumes. Marx organized the International and the social democratic party.

Marx in a letter to C. Schmidt once quipped, "All I know is that I am not a Marxist," as Warren Allen Smith related in Who's Who in Hell .

People describe Marx, who most figured among humans. They typically cite Marx with Émile Durkheim and Max Weber, the principal modern architects.

Bertrand Russell later remarked of non-religious Marx, "His belief that there is a cosmic ... called dialectical materialism, which governs ... independently of human volitions, is mere mythology" ( Portraits from Memory , 1956).

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/marx/
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bi...
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/...
http://www.historyguide.org/intellect...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic...
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/...
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/t...

Reviews

[Sarah Elizabeth]

Dear US Government,

I read this for my international economics course in my global policy studies graduate program. This was not “for fun.”

With love,
Someone who (for some reason) wants to work in government

[Mr. Reader Eric Mesa]

This book was an interesting read for me. I picked up this book as a counterpoint to the Wealth of Nations, which I had wished to read as a student of economics. But once I started reading it, I realized that I had not picked up an economic text at all. This book is a sociopolitical book first and only deals with the economic system only to the extent that it affects the existing (and promised) political system. Certainly communism is an economic system, but only generally characterized as an economic system where firms are owned by the government (as opposed to socialized systems, where privately owned firms are regulated by the government). But the economic particulars appear to never have been defined by Marx. What I got from this book is that Karl Marx was rabidly against the unjust social structures of the time, including wage inequality and worker exploitation- good things to be against- but in the end he concluded that all social structures that permit even the possibility of exploitation are inherently bad and must be dismantled. In essence, I believe Marx's economic theories were based on negation of an existing idea, rather than positive focus of a better thing.

All that said, I would encourage readers to read this book as a social and political book and not a treatise of economics. I have mentioned that a good many books should not be rated as good or bad, since the ideas that they promote have been discredited. This is one of those books- useful not for the validity of the ideas therein, but for understanding the social conditions that made the ideas so attractive. Before reading this book I would suggest that readers read about German and French history circa 1850 to get the most of of Marx's writings.

[John Sexton · Rating 3 out of 5]

I was able to get some information for my Criminology class. At times this book was hard to follow and I had to read sections a couple of times.