{"id":24,"date":"2021-02-08T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T17:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.ryerson.ca\/communistmanifesto\/chapter\/24\/"},"modified":"2022-02-15T13:09:39","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T18:09:39","slug":"manifesto-of-the-communist-party","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/communistmanifesto\/chapter\/manifesto-of-the-communist-party\/","title":{"raw":"Manifesto of the Communist Party","rendered":"Manifesto of the Communist Party"},"content":{"raw":"<h2 id=\"id00009\" class=\"no-indent\">[From the English edition of 1888, edited by Friedrich Engels]<\/h2>\r\n<p id=\"id00010\" style=\"margin-top: 2em;\">A spectre is haunting Europe\u2014the spectre of Communism.\u00a0All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to\u00a0exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot,\u00a0French Radicals and German police-spies.<\/p>\r\n<p id=\"id00011\">Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as\u00a0Communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the Opposition\u00a0that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism,\u00a0against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against\u00a0its reactionary adversaries?<\/p>\r\n<p id=\"id00012\">Two things result from this fact.<\/p>\r\n<p id=\"id00013\">I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European Powers\u00a0to be itself a Power.<\/p>\r\n<p id=\"id00014\">II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the\u00a0face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their\u00a0tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of\u00a0Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.<\/p>\r\n<p id=\"id00015\">To this end, Communists of various nationalities have\u00a0assembled in London, and sketched the following Manifesto, to be\u00a0published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and\u00a0Danish languages.<\/p>","rendered":"<h2 id=\"id00009\" class=\"no-indent\">[From the English edition of 1888, edited by Friedrich Engels]<\/h2>\n<p id=\"id00010\" style=\"margin-top: 2em;\">A spectre is haunting Europe\u2014the spectre of Communism.\u00a0All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to\u00a0exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot,\u00a0French Radicals and German police-spies.<\/p>\n<p id=\"id00011\">Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as\u00a0Communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the Opposition\u00a0that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism,\u00a0against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against\u00a0its reactionary adversaries?<\/p>\n<p id=\"id00012\">Two things result from this fact.<\/p>\n<p id=\"id00013\">I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European Powers\u00a0to be itself a Power.<\/p>\n<p id=\"id00014\">II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the\u00a0face of the whole world, publish their views, their aims, their\u00a0tendencies, and meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of\u00a0Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself.<\/p>\n<p id=\"id00015\">To this end, Communists of various nationalities have\u00a0assembled in London, and sketched the following Manifesto, to be\u00a0published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and\u00a0Danish languages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":251,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-24","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":3,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/communistmanifesto\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/communistmanifesto\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/communistmanifesto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/communistmanifesto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/251"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/communistmanifesto\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/communistmanifesto\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/24\/revisions\/140"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/communistmanifesto\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/3"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/communistmanifesto\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/24\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/communistmanifesto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/communistmanifesto\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/communistmanifesto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressbooks.library.torontomu.ca\/communistmanifesto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}