The Cambridge companion to The Communist Manifesto

The Cambridge Companion to The Communist Manifesto covers the historical and biographical contexts and major contemporary interpretations of this classic text for understanding Marx and Engels, and for grasping Marxist political theory. The editors and contributors offer innovative accounts of the history of the text in relation to German revolutionaries, European socialism, and socialist political projects; rhetorical, dramaturgical, feminist and postcolonial readings of the text; and theoretical analyses in relation to political economy, political theory and major concepts of Marxism. The volume includes a fresh translation into English, by Terrell Carver, of the first edition (1848), and an exacting transcription of the rare earliest English translation (1850) by Helen Macfarlane.

• Includes an editors' introduction and twelve chapters by noted scholars from different sub-fields in political theory so readers will have access to the latest interpretative approaches
  
• Contains two translations of the text so readers will have access to a more accurate translation of the first edition and to a rare translation of historical interest