Communist Manifesto

noun

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

Communist Manifesto

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

Antonio Negri, 90, an Italian philosopher whose essays and activism calling for a new workers revolution landed him in prison in 1979 and who two decades later became a global intellectual celebrity for writing “Empire,” a book hailed as the new “Communist Manifesto,” died Dec. 16 in a Paris hospital.

From Seattle Times

Antonio Negri, an Italian philosopher whose essays and activism calling for a new workers’ revolution landed him in prison in 1979, and who two decades later became a global intellectual celebrity for writing “Empire,” a book hailed as the new “Communist Manifesto,” died on Saturday in Paris.

From New York Times

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

This is called bounded solidarity, and sociologists pin the origins of it to "The Communist Manifesto" by German philosopher Karl Marx.

From Salon