The Communist Manifesto

Samuel Moore's translation, 1888. 8 parts, about 11,216 words, 51 minutes of reading. Source edition.

Passages the guide marks

A spectre is haunting Europe: the spectre of communism.
Preamble
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.
Section 1 · Read it in I: Bourgeois and Proletarians
All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.
Section 1 · Read it in I: Bourgeois and Proletarians
The bourgeoisie, it says, has left no other bond between people than naked self-interest and cash payment, and has drowned religious fervour and chivalric enthusiasm in icy water.
Section 1 · Read it in I: Bourgeois and Proletarians
The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Working men of all countries, unite!
Section 4, closing · Read it in Chapter IV

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Public domain in the United States; the Standard Ebooks edition is released under CC0. Translated by Samuel Moore. It is not the edition the programs assign; the guide names that one, and the buy links there point at it.

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