Beautifully designed and carefully proofed, this edition includes: • The book includes 11 unique illustrations that are relevant to its content; • Information on the historical context of the book; • Detailed biography of Karl Marx; • Detailed biography of Friedrich Engels. The Communist Manifesto (Das Kommunistische Manifest), originally titled Manifesto of the Communist Party (German: Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei) 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. Commissioned by the Communist League, it laid out the League’s purposes and program. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism, rather than a prediction of communism’s potential future forms.