The Communist Manifesto (originally
Manifesto of the Communist Party) is an 1848 political pamphlet by German philosophers
Karl Marx and
Friedrich Engels. Commissioned by the
Communist League and originally published in London (in the German language as
Manifest der kommunistischen Partei) just as the
revolutions of 1848 began to erupt, the
Manifesto was later recognised as one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. It presents an analytical approach to the
class struggle (historical and then-present) and the problems of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production, rather than a prediction of communism's potential future forms.