The Communist Manifesto and Other Revolutionary Writings Marx, Marat, Paine, Mao Tse-Tung, Gandhi and Others

by Blaisdell, Bob

• ISBN13: 9780486424651
• ISBN10: 0486424650
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-01-15
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

Spanning 3 centuries, this works include such milestone documents as the Declaration of Independence (1776), the Declaration of the Rights of Man (1789), and The Communist Manifesto (1848). Also included are writings by the Russian revolutionaries Lenin and Trotsky, Marat and Danton of the French Revolution, Rousseau, Gandhi, Mao, other leading figures in revolutionary thought.

Author Biography

Bob Blaisdell is the editor of several successful Dover anthologies, including Elizabethan Poetry, Famous Documents and Speeches of the Civil War, and The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln.

Table of Contents

Editor's Note	ix
Preface and Part 2, Discourse on the Origins and Foundations of Inequality	1	(35)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Voltaire: ``Policy''	36	(5)
A Summary View of the Rights of British America	41	(15)
Thomas Jefferson
Appendix to Common Sense	56	(7)
Thomas Paine
Representatives of the United States of America: Declaration of Independence	63	(4)
``Live Free or Die''	67	(3)
Camille Desmoulins
Preface and Chapter 1, What Is the Third Estate?	70	(5)
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes
Third Estate: Decree upon the National Assembly	75	(2)
National Assembly of France: The Tennis Court Oath	77	(2)
National Assembly of France: The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen	79	(3)
``Are We Undone?''	82	(3)
Jean Paul Marat
From Conclusion to Part 1, The Rights of Man	85	(5)
Thomas Paine
``Dare, Dare Again, Always Dare''	90	(2)
Georges Jacques Danton
Manifesto of the Equals	92	(4)
Pierre-Sylvain Marechal
``Analysis of the Doctrine of Babeuf''	96	(2)
F. N. Babeuf
``The Legacy of Robert Owen to the Population of the World''	98	(4)
Robert Owen
Chapter 1, What Is Property?	102	(21)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The Manifesto of the Communist Party	123	(28)
Marx
Engels
Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League	151	(10)
Marx
Engels
``The Working Man's Programme''	161	(9)
Ferdinand Lassalle
``An Appeal to the Young''	170	(17)
Peter Kropotkin
From God and the State	187	(13)
Mikhail Bakunin
``May Day''	200	(4)
V.I. Lenin
``The Proletariat and the Revolution''	204	(9)
Leon Trotsky
``The Events in St. Petersburg''	213	(2)
Leon Trotsky
``The Tragedy of Women's Emancipation''	215	(8)
Emma Goldman
The Zimmerwald Manifesto	223	(4)
Leon Trotsky
``The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution [The April Theses]''	227	(5)
V.I. Lenin
A Call to the Workers of the World	232	(4)
Rosa Luxemburg
``Declaration of Rights of the Working and Exploited People''	236	(3)
V.I. Lenin
Ahmedabad Speech	239	(4)
Mohandas K. Gandhi
``The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Government''	243	(6)
Peter Kropotkin
``Satyagraha (Noncooperation)''	249	(10)
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Manifesto of the Chinese People's Liberation Army [October 10th Manifesto]	259	(6)
Mao Zedong
``Colonialism is Doomed''	265	(15)
Che Guevara
Charter 77	280
Vaclav Havel
Jan Patocka