The Manifesto of the Communist Party is the greatest statement of scientific communism ever written and the most influential political doctrine in human history. Authored in 1848 by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, affectionately called “the Manifesto,” it is the first published general view of what Marx and Engels called the “science of society.” The Manifesto displays Marx and Engels’ materialist conception of history.
Seven prefaces were added to the Manifesto and cover 20 years in the development of the factory system and growth of the industrial revolution. Marx and Engels observed the rise of new classes created by the industrial revolution and development of bourgeois private property. These new classes and property relations constituted the foundation of a new mode of production, which Marx called the factory system and bourgeois mode of commodity production. Such a system is today called capitalism.
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