The Communist Manifesto & Selected Writings

Karl Marx, Hugh Griffith

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Macmillan
30 January 2018

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Social & political philosophy; Political science & theory; Marxism & Communism

Series: Macmillan Collector's Library

Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto, first printed just before the French revolution of 1848, is his most accessible and famous work.

In his powerful call to arms, Marx expounds his famous theory that class struggle is the real determinant of historical change.

Next in this volume comes his treatise, Wages, Price and Profit, written in 1865, which serves as an accessible introduction to the ideas which Marx went on to develop in Capital, his masterful, multi-volume analysis of how the world was irreversibly changed by the industrial revolution.

This Macmillan Collector's Library edition contains the most salient extracts from his great work, selected and introduced by Hugh Griffith.

Whilst old-style Marxism is now dead and buried, today's conflicts within capitalism are as sharp as ever and Marx's brilliant, painstaking writings remain incredibly relevant.

Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

By: Karl Marx
Introduction by: Hugh Griffith
Imprint: Macmillan
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New Edition
Volume: 159
Dimensions: Height: 157mm, Width: 100mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 220g
ISBN: 9781509852956
ISBN 10: 1509852956
Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 30 January 2018
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Karl Marx was born in the German city of Trier in 1818. He studied law in Bonn and Berlin at his father's insistence, but his true interests lay elsewhere and, in 1841, he received a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Jena. For the next two years he wrote for radical left-wing newspapers before moving to Paris with his wife, Jenny; there he became a communist and met his lifelong friend and collaborator, Friedrich Engels. They published their revolutionary pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto, in 1848 and Marx moved to London a year later. He spent the rest of his life there - often in considerable poverty - while he wrote his magnum opus of political theory, Das Kapital. Karl Marx died in 1883.