The first edition of "The Communist Manifesto" was anonymously published in London on 1848 February 21. Despite it was the cooperate work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the "The Communist Manifesto" was mostly written by Karl Marx "in the two months of December 1847 and January 1848." (Neil, 1998). 

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Findlay, Len M. "Manifest Der Kommunistischen Partei/The Communist Manifesto (review)." Victorian Review 35.1 (2009): 23-27. Web. https://purdue-primo-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1c3q7im/…

Harding, Neil. "Marx, Engels and the Manifesto: Working Class, Party, and Proletariat." Journal of Political Ideologies 3.1 (1998): 13-44. Web. https://purdue-primo-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1c3q7im/…

History.com Editors. Karl Marx Publishes The Communist Manifesto. 9 Feb. 2010, www.history.com/this-day-in-history/marx-publishes-manifesto.

Stamp of the Soviet Union, 100th anniversary of "The Communist Manifesto" by Marx and Engels, CPA #1246. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Communist_Manifesto#/media/File:Stamp…

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