The Communist Manifesto - with selections from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and Capital by Karl Marx

Edited by Samuel H. Beer, with key selections from Capital and The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, this volume features an especially helpful introduction that serves as a guide to Marxist political and economic theory and to placing the specific writings in their contemporary setting. Included are a bibliography and list of important dates in the life of Karl Marx.

Karl Marx was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Born in Trier, Germany, to a Jewish middle-class family, Marx studied law and philosophy at university. Friedrich Engels is the author of The Communist Manifesto: with selections from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte and Capital by Karl Marx, published by Wiley.