Brasil de FatoThe Plebeu Gabinete de Leitura, a social library in the Northeast of Brazil, has 201 editions of the Communist Manifesto. Photo: Romário Bastos Adelaide Gonçalves is a professor at the History Department of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) and the driving force behind the Plebeu Gabinete de Leitura, a social library located…
Category: Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto: A Clarion Call Full of Ideas
Sam Marcy Illustration by German artist Herbert Sandberg for 1967 edition of The Communist Manifesto. The Communist Manifesto was first published on Feb. 21, 1848. This appreciation was written on its 135th anniversary in 1983 by Sam Marcy, a leading Marxist thinker and fighter of the second half of the twentieth century. Of all the…
How “The State and Revolution” Changed History
Brian Becker A barricade during The Paris Commune, 1871. Anyone who aspires to be a real communist or to understand the theory of modern communism must study Lenin’s pamphlet The State and Revolution. Lenin was able to nearly finish this monumental contribution to Marxism and revolution while on the run, living underground and hiding from…
The Communist Manifesto Study Guide
Liberation School Karl Marx and Frederick Engels wrote The Communist Manifesto as “a complete theoretical and practical party program” for the initially German-based, and then international, Communist League. It was written and published during the heat of revolutionary uprisings in Europe in 1848, and continues to inspire revolutionary struggle across the globe today. We hope this…
