"A spectre is haunting Europe," Karl Marx and Frederic Engels wrote in 1848, "the spectre of Communism." This new edition of The Communist Manifesto, commemorating the 150th anniversary of its publication, includes an introduction by renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm which reminds us of the document's continued relevance. Marx and Engels's critique of capitalism and its deleterious effect on all aspects of life, from the increasing rift between the classes to the destruction of the nuclear family, has proven remarkably prescient. 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.
Frederic L. Bender is professor of philosophy at the University of Colorado, Colorado Spring. He is the author of the Betrayal of Marx and editor of karl Marx: The Essential Writings.
Preface
Chronology of Events Leading to the Communist Manifesto
Historical and Theoretical Backgrounds of the Communist Manifesto
Prefaces by Marx and Engels and Annotated Text of the Communist Manifesto
PREFACES
Preface to the German Edition of 187.2
Preface to the Russian Edition of 188.2
Preface to the German Edition of 1883
Preface to the English Edition of 1888
Preface to the German Edition of 1890
Preface to the Polish Edition of 189.2
Preface to the Italian Edition of 1893
KARL MARX, MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY
I. Bourgeois and Proletarians
II. Proletarians and Communists
Ill. Socialist and Communist Literature
IV. Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties
Sources and Backgrounds
Bert Andr6as- [A Note on Sources]
Rondel V. Davidson~ Reform versus Revolution: Victor
Consid6rant and the Communist Manifesto
S. S. Prawer" [Literary Traces in the Communist Manifesto]
Michael Harrington'The Democratic Essence of Socialism
Bertram D. Wolfe-Democracy and Dictatorship in 1848
The Communist Manifesto in the History of Marxism
Eduard Bernstein" [Revising the Communist Manifesto]
Karl Kautsky" The Communist Manifesto after Six Decades
V. I. Lenin" [The Communist Manifesto and the State]
Max Adler" Socialism and Communism
Leon Trotsky- On the Ninetieth Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto
Lucien Laurat- If One Were to Rewrite the Communist Manifesto Today
Interpretation
Y. Wagner and M. Strauss" [The Theoretical Foundations of the Communist Manifesto's Economic Program]
Mihailo Markovid" [The State and Revolution in the Communist Manifesto]
Hal Draper" [The Communist Manifesto and the Myth of the Disappearing Middle Glasses]
Ernest Mandel" [Marx's Theory of Wages in the Communist Manifesto and Subsequently]
Howard Selsam-The Ethics of the Communist Manifesto
Karl L6with" [Marx's Prophetic Messianism]
Joseph A. Schumpeter" The Communist Manifesto in Sociology and Economics
Haig A. Bosmajian" A Rhetorical Approach to the Communist Manifesto
Selected Bibliography
Index