Manifesto do Partido Comunista

“The Communist League, an international association of workers, which could of course be only a secret one, under conditions obtaining at the time, commissioned us, the undersigned, at the Congress held in London in November 1847, to write for publication a detailed theoretical and practical programme for the Party. Such was the origin of the following Manifesto, the manuscript of which travelled to London to be printed a few weeks before the February [French] Revolution [in 1848].”prefácio à edição alemã de 1872

“Written: Late 1847; First Published: February 1848”cabeçalho da edição

“The resulting document of twenty-three pages, entitled Manifesto of the Communist Party (more generally known since 1872 as The Communist Manifesto), was ‘published in February 1848’, printed in the office of the Workers’ Educational Association (better known as the Communistischer Arbeiterbildungsverein, which survived until 1914), at 46 Liverpool Street in the City of London.”introdução, parte I

“Marx had helped to organize the Communist League after he was expelled from Paris in 1845. In 1847, the league authorized him to draft a party program.”Summary of Event

“The famous final phrase of the Manifesto, “Working Men of All Countries, Unite!”, in the original German is: “ Proletarier aller Länder, vereinigt euch! ” Thus, a more correct translation would be “Proletarians of all countries, Unite!””nota ao final do capítulo IV

“Proletários de Todos os Países, Uni-vos!”última linha do capítulo IV

“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!”final do capítulo IV