Manifesto of the Communist Party Author:Karl Heinrich Marx, Friedrich Engels The Manifesto of the Communist Party, is a short 1848 publication written by the political theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. It has since been recognized as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. It lays out the purposes and programs of the Communist Ideology in an attempt to explain the goals of Communism, as well a... more »s the theory underlying this movement. It presents an analytical approach to perceived class struggles, both past and present, as well as the supposed problems with capitalism. It was not meant as a prediction of communism's potential future forms. This book contains Marx and Engels' theories about the nature of society and politics, that in their own words, "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles". It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism, and then eventually communism. Marx believed that it was time for Communists to 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. I offer this copy as a source of reference to use with which to form your own opinions.« less