Includes index.

Contents: Introduction: Preface -- The Reception of the manifesto -- The 'Spectre of communism' -- The Communist league -- Engels' contribution -- Marx's contribution: prologue -- The Young Hegelians: Hegel and hegelianism -- The Battle over christianity and the emergence of the young hegelians -- The Youn hegelians against the 'Christian state' -- From republicanism to communism -- Political economy and 'the true natural history of man' -- The Impact of stirner -- Communism: The Contribution of Adam Smith -- The History of law and property -- The Contemporary discussion of communism -- Conclusion -- A Guide to further reading -- The Communist manifesto: A Note on the text -- Preface to the German edition of 1872 -- Preface to the Russian edition of 1882 -- Preface to the German edition of 1883 -- Preface to the English edition of 1888 -- Preface to the German edition of 1890 -- Preface to the Polish edition of 1892 -- Preface to the Italian edition of 1893 -- The Manifesto of the communist party: Bourgeois and proletarians -- Proletarians and communists -- Socialist and communist literature -- Position of the communists in relation to the various existing opposition parties.