A Review On Classics：Manifesto of the Communist Party

Written: Late 1847.
First Published: February 1848.
Source: Marx/Engels Selected Works, Volume One, Progress Publishers, Moscow, USSR, 1969, pp. 98-137.
Translated: Samuel Moore in cooperation with Frederick Engels, 1888.
Tranion/Markup: Zodiac  and  Brian Basgen
Proofread: Checked and corrected against the English Edition of 1888, by Andy Blunden, 2004.
Public Domain: This work is completely free. Marx/Engels Internet Archive (marxists.org) 1991, 2000, 2004.

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 Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies.
Where is the party in op that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the op that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced op 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.