A short, incendiary pamphlet arguing that all history is class struggle and calling the workers of the world to unite. The founding document of modern communism.
Books mentioned in The Communist Manifesto (1)
The Philosophy of Poverty by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon: “We may cite Proudhon's Philosophie de la Misere as an example of this form.”
Books that mention The Communist Manifesto (14)
2666 by Roberto Bolaño: “Fate thought it would be The Communist Manifesto, maybe because in the living room, piled in corners, he had seen several copies.”
Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco: “The Communist Manifesto is alluding sarcastically to the secret hunt for the Plan...”
Among Others by Jo Walton: “I read The Communist Manifesto today—it’s very short.”
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes: “my father blamed Alex when he found me reading The Communist Manifesto”
Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens: “handed me (1) a copy of Lytton Strachey's Eminent Victorians and (2) a copy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's Communist Manifesto.”
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri: “He pokes through the box. The Swiss Family Robinson. On the Road. The Communist Manifesto.”
Monsignor Quixote by Graham Greene: “Then begin with Marx and The Communist Manifesto.”
Gai-Jin by James Clavell: “...a newly translated pamphlet by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels called The Communist Manifesto...”
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari: “The Communist Manifesto opens by proclaiming that: The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.”
American Pastoral by Philip Roth: “There was a copy of The Communist Manifesto.”
On Literature by Umberto Eco: “essay written for its 150th anniversary, analyzing its literary style”
The Anatomy Lesson by Philip Roth: “The worst days of the Cold War and they were studying The Communist Manifesto in the social-science course”
Normal People by Sally Rooney: “He told her she should try reading The Communist Manifesto, he thought she would like it, and he offered to write down the title for her so she wouldn’t forget.”