![]() ![]() The Manifesto is ambitious: it suggests a practical plan for the liberation of the working class as well as a new way of studying and understanding the progress of history. Unlike other political pamphlets circulating at the time, The Communist Manifesto sought to contextualize the struggle of the 19th century working class within the history of human civilization. Its authors wanted to present a working set of guidelines and principles for their European socialist allies and to offer a text which communists all over the world could use to agitate for their cause. First written in German, the Manifesto was initially published in London in 1848. Marx was the primary author, while Engels edited the text and assisted Marx financially. ![]() One such organization of workers, the Communist League, commissioned the German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to write The Communist Manifesto, originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party. In response, socialist movements emerged to push back against exploitation by the new capitalist class, also known as the bourgeoisie. ![]()
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