<p>This definitive edition of the <b>Communist Manifesto</b>, prepared for its 150th anniversary, includes a foreword by Marxist scholar Paul M. Sweezy, co-editor of <i>Monthly Review</i>, the full text of the <b>Communist Manifesto</b>, in a distinctive and pleasing hand-set typeface, the important catechism <i>Principles of Communism</i>, drafted by Engels in 1847 as a basis for the <b>Manifesto</b>, and "<i>The Communist Manifesto After 150 Years</i>," a far-reaching interpretive essay by Ellen Meiksins Wood, co-editor of <i>Monthly Review</i>.</p>