{"product_id":"book-ik2m","title":"The Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Communist Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e (German: \u003cem\u003eKommunistisches Manifest\u003c\/em\u003e), originally the \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eManifesto of the Communist Party\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e (German: \u003cem\u003eManifest der Kommunistischen Partei\u003c\/em\u003e), is a political pamphlet written by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the Communist League and originally published in London in 1848, the \u003cem\u003eManifesto\u003c\/em\u003e remains one of the world's most influential political documents. It presents an analytical approach to class struggle and criticizes capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, without attempting to predict communism's potential future forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Communist Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e summarises Marx and Engels' theories concerning the nature of society and politics, namely that, in their own words, \"[t]he history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles\". It also briefly features their ideas for how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism. In the last paragraph of the \u003cem\u003eManifesto\u003c\/em\u003e, the authors call for a \"forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions\", which served as a call for communist revolutions around the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2013, \u003cem\u003eThe Communist Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e was registered to UNESCO's Memory of the World Programme along with Marx's \u003cem\u003eCapital.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49415291404592,"sku":"BDik2m","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/ik2m-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773585760","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ik2m","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}