No abstract can convey the quality of its opening and closing pages, ' Isaiah Berlin once said about the 'Manifesto'. The revolutionary pamphlet written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is still surprisingly relevant today. Of course, history has made some of its parts obsolete -although they have not lost their rhetorical force-, but as a critique of capitalism it is still a fundamental work, an imperative read to understand the present. This new edition offers an accessible text in the spirit of Marx and Engels writing, who addressed primarily to ordinary people. It presents a series of contemporary comments to help understand the current value of the 'Manifesto' and its place in this troubled times. Regardless of one's ideology, reading the 'Manifesto' allows to converse with our history and our present, to examine the contradictions of our society and, furthermore, to enjoy an energetic, fluid and contagious prose
