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The Communist Manifesto ( German: Das Kommunistische Manifest ), originally the Manifesto of the Communist Party ( Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei ), is a political pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London in 1848. The text is the first and most systematic ...
Karl Marx. Karl Marx ( German: [maʁks]; 5 May 1818 – 14 March 1883) was a German-born philosopher, political theorist, economist, historian, sociologist, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. His best-known works are the 1848 pamphlet The Communist Manifesto (with Friedrich Engels) and his three-volume Das Kapital (1867–1894); the ...
Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Translated by Samuel Moore in cooperation with Frederick Engels, 1888. Chapter 4 of The Communist Manifesto. Collection of Quotes by Karl Marx Archived 2022-06-29 at the Wayback Machine
Friedrich Engels. Friedrich Engels ( / ˈɛŋɡəlz / ENG-gəlz; [ 2][ 3][ 4] German: [ˈfʁiːdʁɪç ˈʔɛŋl̩s]; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895) was a German philosopher, political theorist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. He was also a businessman and Karl Marx 's closest friend and collaborator, serving as a ...
v. t. e. " On the Jewish Question " is a response by Karl Marx to then-current debates over the Jewish question. Marx wrote the piece in 1843, and it was first published in Paris in 1844 under the German title " Zur Judenfrage " in the Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher. The essay criticizes two studies [ 1][ 2] by Marx's fellow Young Hegelian ...
Marxism. The opium of the people or opium of the masses ( German: Opium des Volkes) is a dictum used in reference to religion, derived from a frequently paraphrased partial statement of German revolutionary and critic of political economy Karl Marx: "Religion is the opium of the people." In context, the statement is part of Marx's analysis that ...
Marxism. " From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs " ( German: Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen) is a slogan popularised by Karl Marx in his 1875 Critique of the Gotha Programme. [ 1][ 2] The principle refers to free access to and distribution of goods, capital and services. [ 3]
Socialism portal. v. t. e. Principles of Communism (German: Grundsätze des Kommunismus) is a brief 1847 work written by Friedrich Engels, the co-founder of Marxism. It is structured as a catechism, [ 1] containing 25 questions about communism for which answers are provided. In the text, Engels presents core ideas of Marxism such as historical ...