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Red Books Day 2023: Marx, Engels and Byron
A new annual appreciation of Marx and leftist literature has spread across the globe from India in only three short years – for Britain’s Manifesto Press, NICK WRIGHT joins this year’s celebration
A view of the grave of Marxist philosopher Karl Marx (1818-1883) in Highgate Cemetery East in Highgate, north London
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TWO books take us back to the middle of the 19th century — the poetry of Byron and the Manifesto of the Communist Party.
It was perfect timing. Just as a chain of democratic revolutions against the tyrannies and despotic royal regimes of Europe began, two young Germans, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, penned The Manifesto of the Communist Party. It appeared in print on February 21 1848.
Marx and Engels later recounted: “The Communist League, an international association of workers, which could, of course, be only a secret one, under conditions obtaining at the time, commissioned us, the undersigned, at the Congress held in London in November 1847, to write for publication a detailed theoretical and practical programme for the party.
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