The Cambridge Companion to The Communist Manifesto

Offers the latest contextual and biographical scholarship with innovative interpretations and is supplemented by the first and latest English translations.

Terrell Carver (Edited by), James Farr (Edited by)

9781107683075, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 September 2015

310 pages, 2 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.44 kg

'This is a valuable collection of essays that offers a diverse set of readings and insights into one of the most explosively affective short texts ever written.' Sean Sheehan, Marx and Philosophy Review of Books

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.

Editors' introduction Terrell Carver and James Farr
Part I. Political and Biographical Context: 1. Rhineland radicals and '48ers Jürgen Herres
2. Marx, Engels and other socialisms David Leopold
3. The rhetoric of the Manifesto James Martin
4. The Manifesto in Marx and Engels's lifetimes Terrell Carver
Part II. Political Reception: 5. Marxisms and the Manifesto after Engels Jules Townshend
6. The permanent revolution in and around the Manifesto Emanuele Saccarelli
7. The two revolutionary classes of the Manifesto Leo Panitch
8. Hunting for women and haunted by gender: the rhetorical limits of the Manifesto Joan C. Tronto
Part III. Intellectual Legacy: 9. The Manifesto in political theory: anglophone translations and liberal receptions James Farr and Terence Ball
10. The spectre of the Manifesto stalks neoliberal globalisation: reconfiguring Marxist discourse(s) in the 1990s Manfred B. Steger
11. Decolonising the Manifesto: communism and the slave analogy Robbie Shilliam
12. The Manifesto in a late capitalist era: melancholy and melodrama Elisabeth Anker
Part IV. The Text in English Translation.

Subject Areas: Marxism & Communism [JPFC], History of ideas [JFCX], European history [HBJD]