'An astonishing masterpiece ... a political classic ... has an almost biblical force' — Eric Hobsbawm

The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels' revolutionary call to the...

'An astonishing masterpiece ... a political classic ... has an almost biblical force' — Eric Hobsbawm

The Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels' revolutionary call to the working classes in 1848, is one of the most influential political works ever written. After four years of collaboration, the authors produced this incisive account of their vision of Communism, imagining a society without social classes, private property, or a state.

They argue that the increasing exploitation of industrial workers will eventually lead to a revolution that overthrows capitalism. Their ideas transformed the world irrevocably and remain relevant today as an analysis of global capitalism.

Edited with an introduction by Gareth Stedman Jones.