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  THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the spectre of communism with a manifesto of the party itself.
The socialist and communist literature of France, a literature that originated under the pressure of a bourgeoisie in power, and that was the expressions of the struggle against this power, was introduced into Germany at a time when the bourgeoisie in that country had just begun its contest with feudal absolutism.
The Communists fight for the attainment of the immediate aims, for the enforcement of the momentary interests of the working class; but in the movement of the present, they also represent and take care of the future of that movement.
www.anu.edu.au /polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html   (14158 words)

  
  A Layman's Look at the Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto is one of those documents I was aware of, but had never taken the time to actually read.
One of the lucid observations in the Manifesto, is that the proletariat constitute the majority of the population.
The original aim of this communist policy seems to be melding the oppressor and oppressed classes: a mass of proletariat concentrated in the city, a countryside of peasant farmers, and a few aristocracy with massive tracts of hereditary land.
www.lewrockwell.com /orig/keller5.html   (3101 words)

  
 Manifesto of the Communist Party
We Communists have been reproached with the desire of abolishing the right of personally acquiring property as the fruit of a man's own labor, which property is alleged to be the groundwork of all personal freedom, activity and independence.
The socialist and communist literature of France, a literature that originated under the pressure of a bourgeoisie in power, and that was the expressions of the struggle against this power, was introduced into Germany at a time when the bourgeoisie in that country had just begun its contest with feudal absolutism.
The Communists fight for the attainment of the immediate aims, for the enforcement of the momentary interests of the working class; but in the movement of the present, they also represent and take care of the future of that movement.
www.newyouth.com /archives/classics/marxengels/communistmanifesto.html   (10284 words)

  
 The Communist Manifesto - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Communist Manifesto (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) was first published on February 21, 1848, and is one of the world's most influential political tracts.
The Manifesto went through a number of editions from 1872 to 1890; notable new prefaces were written by Marx and Engels for the 1872 German edition, the 1882 Russian edition, the 1883 German edition, and the 1888 English edition.
The creation of a communist society was most spectacularly attempted in Russia by Lenin and the Bolsheviks in the October Revolution of 1917.
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 Communist Manifesto - MSN Encarta
Communist Manifesto (German Manifest der kommunistischen Partei), declaration of principles and objectives of the Communist League (a secret organization of émigré German artisans and intellectuals), published in London in 1848, shortly before the February Revolution in Paris.
In the second edition, Marx identifies the Communists as the allies and theoretical vanguard of the proletariat.
The Manifesto is the most concise and intelligible statement of Marx's materialist view of history.
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Karl Marx and Frederick Engels MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY 1848 A spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectre of communism.
It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the spectre of communism with a manifesto of the party itself.
The inner organization of this primitive communistic society was laid bare, in its typical form, by Lewis Henry Morgan's (1818-1861) crowning discovery of the true nature of the gens and its relation to the tribe.
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 Analysis of The Communist Manifesto
As one would expect, the Communist Manifesto is a declaration of the intentions of a communist organization.
It has been over 150 years since the publication of the Communist Manifesto and the declaration has proved to be hollow in that many of its predictions have not been born out by actual history.
The Communist Manifesto still finds favor among many political groups and its tenets and ideas are worthy of study because there are economic and historical truths embedded within it.
www.indepthinfo.com /communist-manifesto/analysis.shtml   (734 words)

  
 The Communist Manifesto
The Manifesto, in fact, was the first complete statement of the aims of the working class movement and, more to the point, of its historic mission -- to be the "grave diggers of capitalism", to take state power, and itself become the ruling class.
The Manifesto explains plainly that the cycle of crises, now more intense than ever, cannot be reigned in -- a case of never sharing the fortunes of the rich, but always sharing in their misfortune.
Marx, Engels and their fellow Communist Leaguers and trade union militants, found that collective political party organisation was the answer; to direct all militant actions -- successful or not -- to achieving state power for workers, "forcibly", as the Manifesto put it, if necessary.
www.newworker.org /manifesto.htm   (2454 words)

  
 Penguin Reading Guides | The Communist Manifesto | Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
For much of the twentieth century, The Communist Manifesto was accepted as doctrine by those living under Communist rule as well as by those caught up in the fervor of revolutionary political activity, while others considered it a piece of propaganda of interest mainly to scholars of political history and international relations.
But the Manifesto is really an extended set of provocative answers to questions about Communism, which emerged in the 1840s as a new vision of history and the nature of humans as historical beings, determined in all aspects by the material conditions of society.
For the Manifesto is both a prediction of an inevitable course of history and a rallying cry to act in a certain way for the purpose of bringing about change and improvement.
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 Synopsis of The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto is too long to be a concise declaration of principles and too short to be a book.
The second section of the Communist Manifesto addresses the nature of the new working class which he calls the proletariate.
Parts 3 and 4 of the Communist Manifesto are more arcane and relate more with the politics of the age and geographic region in which the document was written (1848).
www.indepthinfo.com /communist-manifesto/synopsis.shtml   (352 words)

  
 Communist Manifesto
During the twentieth century the Manifesto was even translated into languages that were hardly spoken at all.
The history of translating and editing the Manifesto in each country is of course related to its specific political and social history.
In an equally vague manner we might add that the Manifesto must be one of the most vilified documents, and deliberately thrown into fire or flushed down the toilet.
www.iisg.nl /collections/manifest/index.php   (560 words)

  
 The Communist Manifesto   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
A good number of feminists have solid communist backgrounds, such as Betty Friedan, who was (perhaps still is) for many years a functionary of the Communist Party of the USA.
The communists are not inventing the influence of society on education, they are only changing its character, they tear education away from the influence of the ruling class.
The communist revolution is the most radical break with the traditional circumstances of property; no wonder that in its evolution the most radical break is made with traditional ideas.
www.fathersforlife.org /communist_manifesto.htm   (5137 words)

  
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The first Russian edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party, translated by Bakunin, was published early in the 'sixties by the printing office of the Kolokol.
The Manifesto was published as the platform of the Communist League, a working men's association, first exclusively German, later on international, and under the political conditions of the Continent before 1848, unavoidably a secret society.
First of all, it is noteworthy that of late the Manifesto has become an index, as it were, of the development of large scale industry on the European continent.
www.oicu2.com /afc/manifesto.html   (15316 words)

  
 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto
It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the specter of communism with a manifesto of the party itself.
The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas.
www.wsu.edu:8080 /~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/marx.html   (1838 words)

  
 The Ten Planks of the Communist Manifesto Translated
The Communist program from the start has been one which sees their revolution of 1917 succesful only upon total domination of the world.
Posted below is a comparison of the original ten planks of the Communist Manifesto written by Karl Marx in 1848, along with the American adopted counterpart of each of the planks, The American people have truly been "buried in Communism" by their own politicians of both the Republican and Democratic parties.
One other thing to remember, Karl Marx was stating in the Communist Manifesto that these planks will test whether a country has become commmunist or not.
www.geocities.com /Heartland/7006/com-man.html   (989 words)

  
 The Manifesto of the Communist Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
The Manifesto marked the end of a year-long discussion within the League of the Just about the objectives and methods of proletarian emancipation and implied the conclusion of its transformation into the League of Communists.
In Marxist literature this publication, which marked a milestone in the theoretical evolution of Marx and Engels and reflected the crucial principles of their world view in a relatively self-contained and complete form, is held to be the birth certificate of scientific socialism, which was fundamentally distinct from utopian socialism.
The Manifesto concluded with the internationalist battle-cry "Working Men of All Countries, Unite!" adopted by the I. International Working Men's Association and carried by the first congress of the League of Communists (June 1847) as the motto of the party.
cscwww.cats.ohiou.edu /~Chastain/ac/commat.htm   (594 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Communist Manifesto: Books: Karl Marx,Friedrich Engels,Martin Malia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Their spectre, manifested in the Manifesto's vivid prose, continues to haunt the capitalist world, lingering as a ghostly apparition even after the collapse of those governments which claimed to be enacting its principles.
Radicals, revolutionaries and liberals have had to come to terms with the Manifesto at least since 1848 when it was first published and that same necessity; perhaps surprisingly to some given the changes in the political landscape since then, is true today.
In recently re-reading the Manifesto this writer was struck by how much of the material in it related, taking into account the technological changes and advances in international capitalist development since that time, to today's political crisis of humankind.
www.amazon.com /Communist-Manifesto-Karl-Marx/dp/0451527100   (3526 words)

  
 Communist Manifesto 10 Planks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Karl Marx describes in his communist manifesto, the ten steps necessary to destroy a free enterprise system and replace it with a system of omnipotent government power, so as to effect a communist socialist state.
The 10 PLANKS stated in the Communist Manifesto and some of their American counterparts are...
The people (politicians) who believe in the SOCIALISTIC and COMMUNISTIC concepts, especially those who pass more and more laws implementing these slavery ideas, are traitors to their oath of office and to the Constitution of the united States of America...
www.libertyzone.com /Communist-Manifesto-Planks.html   (1029 words)

  
 The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx Forum
The Communist Manifesto was drafted on the eve of the 1848 revolutions and is a brilliant political text.
As the "age of extremes" draws to an end and capitalism seems everywhere to be triumphant, we are reminded that it did one hundred and fifty years ago as well.
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx Literature Forum is sponsored by eBookMall.com.
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 The Communist Manifesto
It is the mission of this site to teach you all about the Communist Manifesto.
We provide a synopsis which is basically a summary of the material contained in the Communist Manifesto.
We have also written an analysis, which is more of a short critique.
www.indepthinfo.com /communist-manifesto   (301 words)

  
 Communist Manifesto by Karl/Engels, Fri Marx
CHAPTER I. *By bourgeoisie is meant the class of modern capitalists, owners of the means of social production, and employers of wage labour; by proletariat the class of modern wage labourers who, having no means of production of their own, are reduced to selling their labour power in order to live.
Since then Haxthausen discovered common ownership of land in Russia; Maurer proved it to be the social foundation from which all Teutonic races started in history, and, by and by, village communities were found to be, or to have been, the primitive form of society everywhere from India to Ireland.
The inner organization of this primitive communistic society was laid bare, in its typical form, by Morgan's crowning discovery of the true nature of the gens and its relation to the tribe.
www.4literature.net /Karl_Engels_Fri_Marx/Communist_Manifesto   (808 words)

  
 The Communist Manifesto
Marx, the man to whom the whole working class class of Europe and America owes more than to any one else — rests at Highgate Cemetary and over his grave the first first grass is already growing.
A second Russian translation — by Vera Zasulich — appeared in Geneva in 1882; the preface to that edition was written by Marx and myself.
This programme — the considerations underlying the Statutes of the International — was drawn up by Marx with a master hand acknowledged even by the Bakunin and the anarchists.
www.communist-party.ca /archive/manifesto.html   (14084 words)

  
 The Communist Manifesto
NOTE by Engels to 1888 English edition: "Home Colonies" were what Owen called his communist model societies.
In France, the Communists ally with the Social Democrats * against the conservative and radical bourgeoisie, reserving, however, the right to take up a critical position in regard to phases and illusions traditionally handed down from the Great Revolution.
It is entitled: Manifesto of the Communist Party, by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels.
www.workers.org /cm/cm.html   (14101 words)

  
 LibriVox » The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friendrich Engels
LibriVox » The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friendrich Engels
The Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx and Friendrich Engels
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their Manifesto in December 1847, as a guide to the fundamental principles and practices of Communists.
librivox.org /the-communist-manifesto-by-karl-marx-and-friendrich-engels   (160 words)

  
 The Communist Manifesto: 150th Anniversary Edition   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
First published in London in 1848, the Communist Manifesto is one of the most important books of all time: a document which helped to define the emerging socialist movement, altered the course of world history, and is universally acknowledged to be a cornerstone of modern social thought.
The Communist Manifesto After 150 Years, a far-reaching interpretive essay by Ellen Meiksins Wood, editor of Monthly Review.
The result is to illuminate both the historical setting of the Communist Manifesto and the contemporary relevance of its ideas.
www.monthlyreview.org /manifest.htm   (152 words)

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