Manifest Der Kommunistischen Partei

Publisher Marketing: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: Manifest der kommunistischen Partei Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2013 Vollstandiger, durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Erstdruck: London 1848 (anonym). Der Text folgt der letzten von Friedrich Engels besorgten Ausgabe von 1890. Textgrundlage sind die Ausgaben: Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: Werke. Herausgegeben vom Institut fur Marxismus-Leninismus beim ZK der SED, 43 Bande, Band 18, Berlin: Dietz-Verlag, 1962. Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: Werke. Herausgegeben vom Institut fur Marxismus-Leninismus beim ZK der SED, 43 Bande, Band 19, Berlin: Dietz-Verlag, 1962. Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: Werke. Herausgegeben vom Institut fur Marxismus-Leninismus beim ZK der SED, 43 Bande, Band 21, Berlin: Dietz-Verlag, 1962. Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: Werke. Herausgegeben vom Institut fur Marxismus-Leninismus beim ZK der SED, 43 Bande, Band 22, Berlin: Dietz-Verlag, 1963. Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels: Werke. Herausgegeben vom Institut fur Marxismus-Leninismus beim ZK der SED, 43 Bande, Band 4, Berlin: Dietz-Verlag, 1959. Herausgeber der Reihe: Michael Holzinger Reihengestaltung: Viktor Harvion Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 10 pt. " Contributor Bio:  Marx, Karl Described as one of the most influential figures in human history, Karl Marx was a German philosopher and economist who wrote extensively on the benefits of socialism and the flaws of free-market capitalism. His most notable works, Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto (the latter of which was co-authored by his collaborator Friedrich Engels), have since become two of history's most important political and economic works. Marxism--the term that has come to define the philosophical school of thought encompassing Marx's ideas about society, politics and economics--was the foundation for the socialist movements of the twentieth century, including Leninism, Stalinism, Trotskyism, and Maoism. Despite the negative reputation associated with some of these movements and with Communism in general, Marx's view of a classless socialist society was a utopian one which did not include the possibility of dictatorship. Greatly influenced by the philosopher G. W. F. Hegel, Marx wrote in radical newspapers from his young adulthood, and can also be credited with founding the philosophy of dialectical materialism. Marx died in London in 1883 at the age of 64. Contributor Bio:  Engels, Friedrich Karl Heinrich Marx (5 May 1818 - 14 March 1883) was a German philosopher, economist, sociologist, historian, journalist, and revolutionary socialist. Marx's work in economics laid the basis for the current understanding of labour and its relation to capital, and has influenced much of subsequent economic thought. He published numerous books during his lifetime, the most notable being 'The Communist Manifesto' (1848) and 'Das Kapital' (1867-1894). Born into a wealthy middle-class family in Trier in the Prussian Rhineland, Marx studied at the University of Bonn and the University of Berlin, where he became interested in the philosophical ideas of the Young Hegelians. After his studies, he wrote for a radical newspaper in Cologne, and began to work out his theory of dialectical materialism. He moved to Paris in 1843, where he began writing for other radical newspapers and met Friedrich Engels, who would become his lifelong friend and collaborator. In 1849 he was exiled and moved to London together with his wife and children where he continued writing and formulating his theories about social and economic activity. Marx's theories about society, economics and politics - collectively known as Marxism - hold that human societies progress through class struggle: a conflict between an ownership class that controls production and a dispossessed labouring class that provides the labour for production. He called capitalism the "dictatorship of the bourgeoisie," believing it to be run by the wealthy classes for their own benefit; and he predicted that, like previous socioeconomic systems, capitalism produced internal tensions which would lead to its self-destruction and replacement by a new system: socialism. Marx argued that class antagonisms under capitalism between the bourgeoisie and proletariat would eventuate in the working class' conquest of political power in the form of a dictatorship of the proletariat and eventually establish a classless society, socialism or communism, a society governed by a free association of producers. Along with believing in the inevitability of socialism and communism, Marx actively fought for their implementation, arguing that social theorists and underprivileged people alike should carry out organised revolutionary action to topple capitalism and bring about socio-economic change. Marx has been described as one of the most influential figures in human history.