![]() “This small pamphlet is by far the most influential single piece of political writing since the French Revolutionary Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen,” wrote Eric Hobsbawm, a distinguished British Marxist historian (1914-2012), for the 2012 edition. Nor was it a beautiful book however even though the Manifesto continued throughout the century to be under-designed, it would not remain obscure for long. But when the staid-looking 23-page pamphlet commissioned by the Communist League in London was first published in 1848, during a year of massive social unrest, it was not a bestseller. And so, as we pass the 100 th anniversary of the October Revolution (which in 1917 saw an insurrection led by the Russian Bolshevik party) we're taking a look at all the manifestations of the Manifesto that have cropped up over the years. ![]() ![]() The ultimate case for anti-design: The Communist Manifesto Only a handful of books have been so frequently reprinted and translated as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ world altering volume, The Communist Manifesto. ![]()
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