Originally published on February 21, 1848, The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels remains one of the most influential books in human history. It is considered a World Heritage document by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, which adopted the book in its Memory of the World Register, an initiative designed to "preserve humanities heritage against the 'ravages of time' and 'collective amnesia.'"Karl Marx is considered the "most influential philosopher" in human history. His ideas "redefined geopolitics and shook up the world order," in the words of Oxford philosophy professor Jonny Thomson.Considered one of the most influential political documents of all time, here is the 175th Anniversary Edition of the authorized translation of Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London just as the revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, it presents Marx and Engels' analytical approach to the class struggle, capitalism, the capitalist mode of production, and calls on workers of the world to unite!This 175th Anniversary Edition includes a Foreword by Denise Miles, chair of the Communist Party USA's Education Commission. According to Miles, The Manifesto "sheds light on what makes us 'us' as the working class. In the United States there is little of greater importance than the working class coming to fully know itself and its interconnection with other social forces.

" In short, The Communist Manifesto is just as relevant today as when it was first written 175 years ago.