The most influential and best-selling political pamphlet of all time was first published on this day in 1848: The Communist Manifesto, written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
Marx and Engels wrote the Manifesto as a call to action aimed at proletariat across Western Europe and as an advertisement or plug for a specific type of socialism — the version Marx and his colleagues and the Communist League promoted. There were a lot of versions of socialism already circulating around Europe.
Most of the ideas that went into The Communist Manifesto were brainstormed over the course of a week and a half in a room above an English pub — a pub called the Red Lion, located in the Soho district of London. WA
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