Book Review Of The Communist Manifesto By Karl Marx Friedrich Engels
he Communist Manifesto is one of the influential political documents in history. It was written in 1848 by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Furthermore, it was commissioned by the Communist League and was first published in London as Manifesto of the Communist Party. The manifesto is divided into four chapters or parts namely: Bourgeois and Proletarians, Proletarians and Communists, Socialist and Communist Literature and Position of the Communist in relation to the various existing opposition parties. Communist manifesto is Marx and Engels theories about the structure or nature of society and politics. It reveals how the society is characterised by class antagonisms in all historical epoch of human existence. Hence the chapters will be evaluated separately and its application to contemporary situation in Nigeria.