The Communist manifesto

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. German Edition of 1872 ; Russian Edition of 1882 ; German Edition of 1883 ; English Edition of 1888 ; German Edition of 1890 ; Polish Edition of 1892 ; Italian Edition of 1893 ; Karl Marx: Manifesto of the Communist Party. Bourgeois and Proletarians ; II. Proletarians and Communists ; Socialist and Communist Literature ; Position of the Communists in Reflation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties.

Sources and Backgrounds. A Note on Sources / Bert Andréas ; The Demo cratic Essence of Socialism / Michael Harrington ; Democracy and Dictatorship in 1848 / Bertram D. Wolfe.

The Communist Manifesto in the History of Marxism. Revising the Communist Manifesto / Eduard Bernstein ; The Communist Manifesto and the Revolutionary State / V.I. Lenin ; Socialism and Communism / Max Adler ; On the Ninetieth Anniversary of the Communist Manifesto / Leon Trotsky.

Interpretation. The Theoretical Foundations of the Communist Manifesto's Economic Program / Y. Wagner and M. Strauss ; The State and Revolution in the Communist Manifesto / Mihailo Markovic ; The Communist Manifesto and the Myth of the Disappearing Middle Classes / Hal Draper ; Marx's Theory of Wages in the Communist Manifesto and Subsequently / Ernest Mandel ; The Ethics of the Communist Manifesto / Howard Selsam ; Marx's Prophetic Messianism / Karl Löwith ; A Rhetorical Approach to the Communist Manifesto / Haig A. Bosmajian ; If One Were to Rewrite the Communist Manifesto Today / Lucien Laurat ; What Is Living and What Is Dead in the Communist Manifesto? / Wal Suchting ; Socialist Feminist Critique and the Communist Manifesto / Wendy Lynne Lee ; Marx's Mole Is Dead! / Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri ; Have Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri Rewritten the Communist Manifesto for the Twenty- First Century? / Slavoj Žižek ; Hardt and Negri's Empire: A New Communist Manifesto or a Reformist Welcome to Neoliberal Globalization? / Takis Fotopoulos and Alexandros Gezerlis ; What Can the @CommunistManifesto Tell Us about #Revolution in #2011? / Joe Bender.

The Communist manifesto, also known as The manifesto of the Communist Party (p. 3-52)

prefaces to various editions of the Communist Manifesto which were published during Marx's and Engels' lifetimes, 1872-1893 (p. 53-81)

excerpts from Marx's book, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (p. 85-120).