HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Published in 1848, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engel’s pamphlet The Communist Manifesto is a landmark text in socialist and Marxist history – a rallying cry for the revolutionary overthrow of capitalist society by the working classes. Karl Marx , a German philosopher, economist and political theorist, was born in Trier, Germany in 1818. His works, including The Communist Manifesto (co-authored with Friedrich Engels) and Das Kapital , laid the foundations for the modern communist movement. Born in Barmen, Germany in 1820, Friedrich Engels was a philosopher, economist and political theorist who is known for his influence on socialist philosophy. After meeting Marx in 1844, Engels co-authored a number of groundbreaking works, including The Communist Manifesto.