Manifesto Of The Communist Party

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.