Called The Communist Manifesto, it’s one of the most widely read examples of political works, authored by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels — even though communism in the form initially proposed by the document has evolved, changed, been misused… and often difficult to find working in practice.

They were both born Germany, the majority of the writing was done in the mid-to-late 18oo’s, with the claim that ‘the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles’. The bourgeois (the upper-middle class) are privileged by their domination of the means of production, while the downtrodden working class (the proletariat) struggle under the limitations that society puts upon them, both socially and economically. 

Rather than allowing industry to exploit the people, a proposed socialist period would allow the means of production to be centralised, with the result being a stateless and classless society, where the tyranny of capitalism finally be overthrown. How true this is in theory and practice is something that has been tried and debated since — but the ideas of The Communist Manifesto are still a challenging work, that has led to both revolutions and even nations devoted to its ideals.