Manifesto of the Communist Party The present English edition of the MANIFESTO OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY is a reproduction of the translation made by Samuel Moore in 1888 from the original German text of 1848 and edited by Frederick Engels. Included in the present text are Engels's annotations for the English 1888 edition and the German 1890 edition as well as the authors' prefaces to the various editions, and as an Appendix Engel's PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNISM. The notes at the end of the book are taken from the English edition of the Manifesto of the Communist Party, published by Progress Publishers, Moscow in 1971.