The Communist Manifesto [antikvár]

In the spring of 1847 Karl Marx and Frederick Engels agreed to join the so-called League of the just [Bund der Gerechten], an offshoot of the earlier League of the Outlaws [Bund der Geächteten], a revolutionary secret society formed in Paris in the 1830s under French Revolutionary influence by German journeymen — mostly tailors and woodworkers — and still mainly composed of such expatriate artisan radicals. The League, convinced by their 'critical communism', offered to publish a Manifesto drafted by Marx and Engels as its policy document, and also to modernize its organization along their lines. Indeed, it was so reorganized in the summer of 1847, renamed League of the Communists [Bund der Kommunisten], and committed to the object ofthe overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the rule of the proletariat, the ending of the old socioty which rests on class contradiction [Klassengegensätzen] and the establishment of a new society without cla.s.ses or private property'. A socond congress of the League, also held in London in November-DocxMiibor