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This Penguin Classic is conducted by Arinzé Kene, writer and performer of Olivier Award nominated Misty, and in addition known for his roles in Youngers, Informer and Eastenders. This definitive recording includes an Introduction by Gareth Stedman Jones.

The Communist Manifesto (1848), Marx and Engels’s revolutionary summons to the working classes, is one of the most important and influential political theories ever formulated. After four many years of cooperation the authors produced this incisive account of their idea of Communism, in which they envisage a society without classes, personal property or a state. They argue that raising exploitation of commercial workers will eventually lead to a revolution in which Capitalism is overthrown. This vision supplied the theoretical basis of political systems in Russia, China, Cuba and Eastern European countries, affecting the lives of thousands. The Communist Manifesto still remains a landmark text message: a function that continues to influence and provoke debate on capitalism and course.

(c) 1888, Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels (P) 2019 Penguin Audio