The Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto, originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party is a short book written by the German Marxist political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848. It was commissioned by the Communist League and laid out the League's program and purposes. Rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms, the text presents an analytical approach to the historical and present nature of class struggle and the problems of capitalism. It has since been recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts.