Communist Manifesto

American  

noun

1. a pamphlet (1848) by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: first statement of the principles of modern communism.

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Communist Manifesto British  

noun

1. a political pamphlet written by Marx and Engels in 1848: a fundamental statement of Marxist principles

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Example Sentences

The giant sequoia we now know as the General Sherman, the world’s largest tree, Haskell named the “Karl Marx tree,” after his hero, author of the Communist Manifesto.

From Los Angeles Times

“All that is solid melts into air,” wrote Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in their 1848 pamphlet “The Communist Manifesto.”

From Washington Post

The characters, with their insistence on self-determination, feel too modern, and there are a few infelicities, like the idea that “The Communist Manifesto,” first translated into English toward the end of 1850, would circulate onboard.

From New York Times

After that ‘Communist Manifesto’ photo op, Grimes embraces ‘being cringe’

From Los Angeles Times

Comrade Grimes has broken her silence on those paparazzi photos of her reading a copy of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’ “Communist Manifesto” shortly after she sort of broke up with billionaire boyfriend Elon Musk.

From Los Angeles Times