The Communist Manifesto

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Broadview Press, Aug 30, 2004 - Political Science - 256 pages

L.M. Findlay’s elegant new translation is a work of textual and historical scholarship. Few books have had as much of an impact on modern history as The Communist Manifesto. Since it was first published in 1848, it has become the rallying cry for revolutionary movements around the world. This new Broadview edition draws on the 1888 Samuel Moore translation supervised by Engels—the standard English version in Marxist discourse—and on the original Helen Macfarlane translation into English of 1850.

Throughout, Findlay draws on a variety of disciplines and maintains a broad-ranging perspective. Among the appendices are Engels’ “Draft of a Communist Confession of Faith,” correspondence and journalism of Marx and Engels, ten illustrations, and eight additional influential political manifestos from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

 

Contents

Acknowledgements
9
List of Illustrations
11
Introduction
13
A Note on the Text
41
A Brief Chronology
50
The Communist Manifesto
59
From Flora Tristans Tour de France
95
Letter from Engels to Marx
97
EngelsPrinciples of Communism
137
Letter from Engels to Marx
157
EngelsOn the History of the Communist League
160
EngelsThe Labour Movement in America
180
EngelsNotes on My Journey Through America and Canada
189
EngelsImpressions of a Journey Round America
192
Manifestoes
195
Further Reading
252

EngelsDraft of a Communist Confession of Faith
104
MarxThe Communism of the Rheinischer Beobachter
112
Communist Journal
125
Credits
255
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L.M. Findlay is Director, Humanities Research Unit at the University of Saskatchewan.

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