The Library After Dark
The cover of The Communist Manifesto

Contested

The Communist Manifesto

by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

A short, furious pamphlet arguing that history is the story of who owns what, and that the current arrangement is neither natural nor permanent. It was meant to be read aloud at meetings, not studied quietly at a desk, and you can feel that urgency in every sentence. Few documents this brief have rearranged this much of the world since.

The librarian
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain text
Reading time
About 45 minutes
Where to find it
On the Contested shelves
Edition
Project Gutenberg, eBook #61. In the public domain in the United States.

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