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COMMUNIST MANIFESTO AND TYPES OF SOCIALISM

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  THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO AND TYPES OF SOCIALISM
  
  Karl Marx's and Frederick Engels' Manifesto of the Communist Party, the most influential work in the history of socialism, focused on the idea of historical development, the importance of the economic mode of production, the role of class struggle and the nature of social and political change. This small book has been translated into all the major languages and has remained an inspiration for generations of socialists. It has entered into working class consciousness in a way that few other political works have been able to do. It is often the first and perhaps even the only piece of writing by Marx and Engels that many workers read. It also has a dramatic and literary quality which makes it one of the great pieces of political writing. Its powerful arguments and its sense of providing a complete picture still overshadow most modern political work.
  
  But even in the enormous body of work related to Marxism, The Manifesto is undoubtedly unique. Even at its short length (only 23 pages at its first printing), it the only full exposition of his program that Marx wrote. And while Marx developed his views throughout his career, he never departed far from the original principles outlined therein. The Manifesto is, without a doubt, Marx's most enduring literary legacy, setting in motion a movement which has, although not in exactly the way Marx predicted, radically changed the world...