and Friedrich Engels:
Das Manifest der Kommunistischen Partei 1848
The tomb of Karl Marx, Highgate, London England
FREDERICK ENGELS SPEECH
AT THE GRAVE OF KARL
MARX
Highgate Cemetery, London
March 17, 1883
Transcribed by Mike Lepore
(mlepore@mcimail.com) in 1993.
'On the 14th of March, at a quarter to three in
the afternoon, the greatest living thinker ceased
to think. He had been left alone for scarcely two
minutes, and when we came back we found him
in his armchair, peacefully gone to sleep -- but
for ever.' (speech extract)
MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY 1848
Chapter 1.
From the English edition of 1888, edited by Friedrich Engels
A spectre is haunting Europe--the spectre of Communism.
All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to
exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot,
French Radicals and German police-spies.
Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as
Communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the Opposition
that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism,
against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against
its reactionary adversaries?
Two things result from this fact.
I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European Powers
to be itself a Power.
II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the
face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their
tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of
Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.
To this end, Communists of various nationalities have
assembled in London, and sketched the following Manifesto, to be
published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and
Danish languages.
view full-text of the Marx &Engel's Communist Manifesto at -
http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm
