Part I Introduction: Preface
The reception of the Manifesto
The 'spectre of communism'
Marx's contribution: prologue
From republicanism to communism
Political economy and 'The true natural history of man'
A guide to further reading
Part II Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto: Preface to the German edition of 1872
Preface to the Russian edition of 1882
Preface to the German edition of 1883
Preface to the English edition of 1888
Preface to the German edition of 1890
Preface to the Polish edition of 1892
Preface to the Italian edition of 1893
The manifesto of the communist party
Bourgeois and proletarians
Proletarians and communists
Socialist and communist literature
B. Petty-bourgeois socialism
German, or "true", socialism
Conservative, or bourgeois, socialism
Critical utopian socialism and communism
Position of the communists in relation to the various exiting opposition parties.