The Communist Manifesto

Cultural  

1. (1848) A book in which Karl Marx (see also Marx) and Friedrich Engels proclaimed the principles of communism. It ends, “Workers of the world, unite.”

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Example Sentences

Like most kids, Matthew sees himself as a function of his parents’ work and ambitions: “I am a specimen ready to be deposited into its petri dishes. Let’s see what happens when we dose this specimen with Robert Frost and ‘The Communist Manifesto.’”

From Los Angeles Times

While the German philosopher's early works like "The Communist Manifesto" urged the working class to insist on receiving its fair share of the benefits of industrialism, Marx's later writings praised Indigenous peoples in the Americas, India and Algeria for living in communes that stressed sustainable environmental practices.

From Salon

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