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The Communist Manifesto is a political pamphlet by German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels pub-lished in 1848. When the revolutions began to erupt, the Manifesto came to be recognized as one of the world’s most influential political manuscripts. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and then-present) and the problems of capitalism and the capitalist mode of production. It states, “The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles”, and summarizes Marx and Engels’ theories about the nature of society and politics. It also briefly features their ideas about how the capitalist society of the time would eventually be replaced by socialism. Socialism: Utopian and Scientific explains the differences between utopian socialism and scientific socialism. It states that utopian socialism is idealist, reflects the personal opinions of the authors and claims that society can be adapted based on these opinions, while scientific socialism is based on reality. It focuses on the materialist concept of history, which is based on an analysis over history, and concludes that communism will replace capitalism. The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 is a detailed description and analysis of the appalling con-ditions of the working class in Britain and Ireland during Engels’ stay in England. It also contains many seminal thoughts on the state of socialism and its development. The book contains the above three works and presents the core concepts of Marxism under one cover.