Friedrich Engels fu un pensatore e riformatore sociale tedesco, le cui prime esperienze con la povertà industriale in Inghilterra lo spinsero ad analizzare l'ingiustizia sociale. Dopo aver incontrato Karl Marx, divennero collaboratori per tutta la vita, coautori di opere fondamentali che plasmarono il pensiero socialista. Engels approfondì le origini dello Stato e della famiglia, guadagnandosi una reputazione per il suo devoto ateismo. I suoi scritti continuano a stimolare la riflessione sulle strutture di potere e sulla disuguaglianza.
Passato sotto silenzio per pi� di vent'anni dopo il 1848, il Manifesto del Partito Comunista dagli anni Settanta dell'Ottocento � stato tema di dibattito per storiografi, filosofi e politologi, che hanno cercato, da differenti prospettive, di interpretarlo, revisionarlo, applicarlo, confutarlo. L'opera di Marx ed Engels � divenuta anche fondamento dottrinale di milioni di uomini in tutto il mondo e di intere organizzazioni statali. A pi� di centocinquant'anni dalla sua pubblicazione resta ancora un capolavoro del pensiero e mantiene intatto tutto il suo vigore polemico.PER ALTRI CLASSICI DEL MARXISMO DIGITA "BI CLASSICI" NELLA AMAZON SEARCH BAR!
(Dalla prefazione del libro) Il Manifesto venne pubblicato come piattaforma programmatica della "Lega dei comunisti", associazione di lavoratori dapprima esclusivamente tedesca, poi internazionale e, date le condizioni politiche del Continente prima del 1848, società inevitabilmente segreta. Nel corso di un congresso della Lega tenutosi a Londra nel novembre 1847, Marx ed Engels vennero incaricati di preparare per la pubblicazione un completo programma teorico e pratico di partito. Redatto in tedesco nel gennaio 1848, il manoscritto fu spedito in tipografia a Londra alcune settimane prima della rivoluzione francese del 24 febbraio. Una traduzione francese fu pubblicata a Parigi poco prima dell'insurrezione del giugno 1848, mentre la prima traduzione inglese, a opera di Helen Macfarlane, apparve a Londra sul Red Republican di George Julian Harney, nel 1850.
A reprint of the 1934 'enlarged edition', a volume that added newly translated material to the title essay. It includes an introduction by Engels ["Do you want to know that this dictatorship of the proletariat looks like? Then look at the Paris Commune. That was the dictatorship of the proletariat"], Marx's first and second 'Manifesto On The Franco-Prussian War', the correspondence of Marx & Engels on the Commune, and Engels' 'The Program of the Blanquist Fugitives from the Paris Commune'.
The book presents a significant exploration of socialism, distinguishing between its utopian and scientific aspects. Recognized as a classic, it has been preserved and republished in a modern format to ensure its accessibility for current and future readers. The text has been reformatted and retyped for clarity, making it a valuable resource for those interested in the evolution of socialist thought.
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth century. From Kapital sprung the economic and political systems that at one time dominated half the earth and for nearly a century kept the world on the brink of war. Even today, more than one billion Chinese citizens live under a regime that proclaims fealty to Marxist ideology. Yet this important tome has been passed over by many readers frustrated by Marx’s difficult style and his preoccupation with nineteenth-century events of little relevance to today's reader. Here Serge Levitsky presents a revised version of Kapital, abridged to emphasize the political and philosophical core of Marx’s work while trimming away much that is now unimportant. Pointing out Marx’s many erroneous predictions about the development of capitalism, Levitsky's introduction nevertheless argues for Kapital's relevance as a prime example of a philosophy of economic determinism that "subordinates the problems of human freedom and human dignity to the issues of who should own the means of production and how wealth should be distributed." Here then is a fresh and highly readable version of a work whose ideas provided inspiration for communist regimes' ideological war against capitalism, a struggle that helped to shape the world today.
The first volume of a political treatise that changed the world One of the most notorious works of modern times, as well as one of the most influential, Capital is an incisive critique of private property and the social relations it generates. Living in exile in England, where this work was largely written, Marx drew on a wide-ranging knowledge of its society to support his analysis and create fresh insights. Arguing that capitalism would cause an ever-increasing division in wealth and welfare, he predicted its abolition and replacement by a system with common ownership of the means of production. Capital rapidly acquired readership among the leaders of social democratic parties, particularly in Russia in Germany, and ultimately throughout the world, to become a work described by Marx friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels as “the Bible of the working class.” For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
