Contents

pp v-vi

Notes on Contributors

pp vii-x

Preface

pp xi-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiii

Abbreviations

pp xiv-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-13

Manifesto of the Communist Party

pp 14-38

Part 1 - Text and Context

pp 39-40

1 - ‘The Hungry Forties’: The Socio-economic Context of the Communist Manifesto

pp 41-50

2 - Re-translating the Manifesto: New Histories, New Ideas

pp 51-62

3 - Past Receptions of the Communist Manifesto

pp 63-74

Part 2 - The Manifesto and Revolution

pp 75-76

4 - The Communist Manifesto and the Idea of Permanent Revolution

pp 77-85

5 - The Communist Manifesto, Marx’s Theory of History and the Russian Revolution

pp 86-96

6 - The Cunning of Production and the Proletarian Revolution in the Communist Manifesto

pp 97-105

7 - Revolution? Reaction? Revolutionary Reaction?

pp 106-116

Part 3 - The Role of the Working Class

pp 117-118

8 - The Communist Manifesto and Working-class Parties in Western Europe

pp 119-131

9 - The Communist Manifesto's Transgendered Proletarians

pp 132-141

10 - Marx and Engels, Marxism and the Nation

pp 142-154

Part 4 - The Manifesto: Still Relevant Today?

pp 155-156

11 - What is Living and What is Dead in the Communist Manifesto?

pp 157-165

12 - A Capitalist State? Marx’s Ambiguous Legacy

pp 166-176

13 - The Communist Manifesto and the Crises of Marxism

pp 177-189

14 - The Communist Manifesto as International Relations Theory

pp 190-201

Guide to Further Study

pp 202-204

Index

pp 205-209