The Communist Manifesto"A spectre is haunting Europe the spectre of Communism." So begins one of history's most important documents, a work of such magnitude that it has forever changed not only the scope of world politics, but indeed the course of human civilization. The Communist Manifesto was written in Friedrich Engels's clear, striking prose and declared the earth shaking ideas of Karl Marx. Upon publication in 1848, it quickly became the credo of the poor and