The "Communist Manifesto" was written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels The "Communist Manifesto" was written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels Amazon.com: Marx Engels The Communist Manifesto: original version The "Communist Manifesto" was written by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. Featuring an extensive, provocative introduction by historian Martin Malia, this authorized English translation of The Communist Manifesto, edited and annotated by Engels, with prefaces to editions published between 1872 and 1888, provides a new opportunity to examine the document that shook the world. In 1848, two young men published what would become one of the defining documents of modern history, The Communist Manifesto. It rapidly realigned political faultlines all over the world and its aftershock resonates to this day. In the many years since its publication, no other social program has inspired such divisive and violent debate. Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the worlds first regime to adopt the Manifestos tenets, historians have debated its intent and its impact. In the current era of market democracy in Russia and Eastern Europe, nationalism on every continent, and an ever tightening global economy, does the specter of Communism still haunt the world? Were the seeds of Communisms ultimate destruction already planted in 1848? Is there anything to be learned from Marxs envisioned utopia? With an Introduction by Martin Malia and an Afterword by Stephen Kotkin