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The Communist Manifesto
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A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.…
Details
- AuthorKarl Marx, Friedrich Engels
- SourceProject Gutenberg #61
- Length11,505 words · 46 min of reading
- Chapters5
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-03
Contents
5 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01I. BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIANS
- 02II. PROLETARIANS AND COMMUNISTS
- 031. REACTIONARY SOCIALISM
- 042. CONSERVATIVE, OR BOURGEOIS, SOCIALISM
- 053. CRITICAL-UTOPIAN SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM
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