Author: Aijaz Ahmed
Irfan Habib/Prabhat Patnaik
Editor: Prakash Karat
Publisher: LeftWord
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 149
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187496002
Description
The Communist Manifesto is among the most widely read and disseminated texts in the world. It has been more influential in the making of the modern world than any other piece of political writing. Rarely has a call to arms been phrased in a language of such zest, beauty and purity. One hundred and fifty years after it was written, the Manifesto shows us an image of our own, present-day globalised capitalism with stunning clarity and accuracy.
Edited, with an introduction by Prakash Karat, the present volume contains essays by three of India's foremost Marxist scholars, Aijaz Ahmad, Irfan Habib and Prabhat Patnaik, who explain the relevance of the Manifesto in terms of Marxist theory and praxis.
The volume also contains the complete text of the Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Frederick Angeles, Preface to the English Edition of 1888 by Frederick Engels, and a note on the publishing history of the Manifesto in India.
Contents
Note on the Text of
The Communist Manifesto
PARKAS KARAT
Introduction
AIJAZ AHMAD
The Communist Manifesto: In Its Own Time, and in Ours
IRFAN HAIB
The Reading of History in The Communist Manifesto
PRABHAT PATNAIK
The Communist Manifesto After 150 Years
KARL MARX and FREDERICK ENGELES
Manifesto of the Communist Party
FREDERICKJ ENGELS
Preface to the English Edition of 1888
The Manifesto in India: A Publishing History
Index