Concordia Theological Monthly
Article Title
Publication Date
10-1-1946
Document Type
Article
Keywords
karl marx, communist manifesto, programme, religion, hegel, revolution, friedrich engels, evolution
Submission Type
Bible Study; Lecture; Sermon Prep
Abstract
For Communists The Communist Manifesto, joint product of Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), is, indeed, an "immortal" document. In the whole realm of communistic literature no other publication has exerted so potent and far-reaching an influence as the Manifesto. In A Handbook of Marxism, the official manual of orthodox Communism, the Manifesto occupies. the first place. The last document in the Handbook, "A Programme of the Communist International" (1928), is, as the "Programme" itself declares, "in a sense a restatement of The Communist Manifesto of 1848 in relation to the imperialist stage of capitalism." The "Programme" repeats verbatim sentences of the Manifesto, reiterates its fundamental philosophic premises, and while it lags far behind the Manifesto in inflammatory eloquence, it closes on the same threatening note.
Disciplines
Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Submission Cost
Free
Submission Audience
Laity; Ministers; Scholars
Recommended Citation
Bretscher, Paul M.
(1946)
"The Communist Manifesto,"
Concordia Theological Monthly: Vol. 17, Article 59.
Available at:
https://scholar.csl.edu/ctm/vol17/iss1/59
