KARL MARX
FREDERICK
ENGELS
MANIFESTO
OF THE
COMMUNIST
PARTY
FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS
PEKING 1970
First Edition 1965
Second Printing 1968
Third Printing 1970
Prepared © for the Internet by David J. Romagnolo, djr@cruzio.com (November 1997)
PUBLISHER'S NOTE
The present English edition of the Manifesto of tbe Communist Party is a reproduction of the translation made by
Samuel Moore in 1888 from the original German text of 1848 and edited by Frederick Engels. Included in the
present text are Engels's annotations for the English edition of 1888 and the German edition of 1890 as well as all
the authors' prefaces to the various editions.
The notes at the end of the book are based on those given in the Chinese edition of the Manifesto of the
Communist Party, published by the People's Publishing House, Peking, in September 1964.
C O N T E N T S
PREFACE TO THE GERMAN EDITION OF 1872
PREFACE TO THE RUSSIAN EDITION OF 1882
PREFACE TO THE GERMAN EDITION 0F 1883
PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION OF 1888
PREFACE TO THE GERMAN EDITION OF 1890
PREFACE TO THE POLISH EDITION OF 1892
PREFACE TO THE ITALIAN EDITION OF 1893
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I. BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS 30
II. PROLETARIANS AND COMMUNISTS 47
III. SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST LITERATURE 60
1.
Reactionary Socialism
a. Feudal Socialism
b. Petty-Bourgeois Socialism
c. German, or "True," Socialism
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2. Conservative, or Bourgeois, Socialism 68
3. Critical-Utopian Socialism and Communism 69
IV.
POSITION OF THE COMMUNISTS IN RELATION TO
THE VARIOUS EXISTING OPPOSITION PARTIES 74
NOTES 74
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FREDERICK ENGELS
MANIFESTO OF
