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Translated into innumerable languages, Isaiah Berlin called the Manifesto “a great revolutionary hymn.” “No other modern political movement or cause can claim to have produced anything comparable with it in eloquence and power.”1 The work was written for the League of Communists in late 1847 and published in London (in German) in early 1848. The League was an association of German exiles in London, Brussels, and Paris forged in order to promote political change in Germany. Marx and Engels were a part of its Brussels branch.
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Notes
Isaiah Berlin, Karl Marx: His Life and Environment (New York: Oxford University Press, 1959), p. 150.
David Fernbach, introduction to The Revolutions of 1848 (New York: Random House, 1973), p. 28 footnote.
August H. Nimtz, Jr., Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000), p. 59.
Hal Draper, Karl Marx’s Theory of Revolution, Volume II, The Politics of Social Classes (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1978), p. 212 footnote.
David Caute, The Lef in Europe since 1789 (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1966), p. 205.
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Sitton, J.F. (2010). Manifesto of the Communist Party. In: Sitton, J.F. (eds) Marx Today. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230117457_2
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