The Communist Manifesto
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
10.10.2026
Verlag
Clearview EditionsSeitenzahl
100
Maße (L/B/H)
26/18,3/1 cm
Gewicht
337 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798259516977
The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is a compact work of political argument written for readers confronting economic and social change. This Clearview edition follows Project Gutenberg ebook 61, whose text identifies itself as drawn from the English edition of 1888, edited by Engels. The book presents the manifesto as a historical primary source: readers can examine the authors' reasoning and rhetoric directly, including claims that continue to draw scrutiny and disagreement. Readers can judge the argument for themselves. The opening frames European politics through conflict between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. In its first section, the manifesto describes the growth of industry, expanding markets, and the ways Marx and Engels believed these changes reshaped work and class relations. Its language is vivid and insistent, moving between broad claims about history and specific descriptions of labor, trade, and political power. Readers can assess both the force of that account and the assumptions on which it depends. The second section turns to the relationship between communists and other workers' movements. Here the authors set out their position on property, class power, and proposed social change, then answer objections that they expect opponents to raise. The questions they address include education, family life, nationality, and the role of the state. The section is useful to readers who want to distinguish what the pamphlet actually proposes from later summaries, slogans, or interpretations of it. The third section examines competing forms of socialist and communist writing, while the fourth considers how communists should relate to existing opposition parties. The final appeal calls for workers across countries to unite. This four-part structure matters: the manifesto is at once an account of society, a statement of aims, a critique of rival arguments, and a call to political action. Reading the parts in sequence makes its changes of purpose visible and places its famous closing lines in the context of the full text. For libraries and classrooms, this edition offers a readable copy of a frequently discussed primary source in political and economic history. It can support study of nineteenth-century debates about industrial society, organized labor, reform, and revolution, as well as discussion of the distance between an author's predictions and later events. The text also invites comparison with other accounts of the same period and with critiques of its arguments. Readers seeking an introduction can begin with the table of contents and follow the manifesto's four sections in order. This is a 100-page, 7-by-10-inch large-print hardcover. The interior identifies approximately 18-point Atkinson Hyperlegible Next body type with approximately 27-point leading, ragged-right setting, and no automatic word division. These format choices provide more space around the words and a larger page for the text. Clearview calls the format a Liftable Large Print Edition. The stated specifications describe the produced files; comfort and ease of reading will vary by reader and cannot be guaranteed by type size alone. The source text retains the 1888-edition identification printed in Project Gutenberg ebook 61. No translator is named in that source, and this edition does not assign one. The source HTML and the produced interior contain no illustrations. The decorative cover illustration is identified by the publisher as generated with GPT Image-2. The original source work is identified as public domain in the United States; the publisher-created matter belongs to Nimble Books LLC. These distinctions help readers know what text and artwork they are encountering while leaving the manifesto's historical claims open to their own examination.
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