The Communist ManifestoThe definitive introduction to history's most influential and controversial political document, updated for a new generation of readers. Since it was first written in 1848, The Communist Manifesto has been translated into more languages than any other modern text. All across the worldin countless places and idiomsit has been debated, shared, brandished, invoked, banned, burned, and even declared 'dead'. But in an era of escalating political, economic,