Manifesto of the Communist Party

Manifesto of the Communist Party is often referred to as The Communist Manifesto, was first published on February 21, 1848 and written by Karl Marx. This is one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League's purposes and program. The Manifesto suggested a course of action for a proletarian (working class) revolution to overthrow the bourgeois social order and to eventually bring about a classless and stateless society, and the abolition of private property.