The Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto
Author: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Published: 05/01/1992
Pages: 80
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.10lbs
Size: 6.83h x 4.24w x 0.21d
ISBN: 9780553214062
About the Author
KARL MARX (1818-1883) is today considered one of the world's seminal thinkers; although at his death he was, in his own words, "the best hated and most calumniated man of his time." Born in Trier, Prussia, he was descended from a rabbinical family. At the University of Bonn and later at the University of Berlin, he joined a group of radicals who espoused the ideas of Hegel. After emigrating to Paris in 1843 he became deeply committed to communism and the overthrow of tyranny. Here too he began his lifelong association with Friedrich Engels. Finally settling in London with his wife and family, Marx lived the rest of his life in abject poverty while creating his masterwork, Das Kapital, and becoming the leading spirit of revolution throughout the world.