The Cambridge Companion to The Communist Manifesto

Terrell Carver is a Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol. He has published widely on Marx, Engels and Marxism since 1975, including texts, translations, commentary, biography and philosophy of social science. Most recently, he authored a two-volume study of Marx and Engels's 'German ideology' manuscripts (2014). He is also author of The Postmodern Marx (1998). James Farr is a Professor of Political Science and the Director of a Chicago-based civic internship program at Northwestern University. He is the co-editor of After Marx (Cambridge, 1984) and, most recently, The General Will: The Evolution of a Concept (Cambridge, 2015). His studies place Marx and Engels in the context of historical debates about method and their reception in the history of political thought.

• 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.

'The Manifesto is one of the most widely read works in the whole of political thought, and yet there is remarkably little commentary focused specifically on it. This book fills a real gap in the literature. It contains a series of excellent essays that illuminate all aspects of the Manifesto: its context, its ideas, its influence, and its legacy. An essential aid to the study of this seminal text.' Sean Sayers, Emeritus Professor, University of Kent