The second best-selling book of all time, uniquely presented in comic form by the main illustrator of the British newspaper The Guardian. Required reading: you may not love it, but you should know it. Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains. You can gain the whole world. In 2018, 200 years passed since the birth of Karl Marx, one of the most controversial figures in world history. Marx wrote the text of the Communist Manifesto when he was just under 30 years old, reportedly over a weekend in Brussels in January 1848. Even he surely did not anticipate at the time of writing that in the next century, nearly half of humanity would be governed, at least formally, in accordance with the ideas and ambitions first laid out on these pages. However, at a time when just a few dozen people possess the same wealth as half of humanity combined, one cannot deny Marx's considerable visionary insight. It is precisely the contradiction between the monstrosity of the ideologies that adopted Marx's ideas and the real essence of his thoughts that the well-known British illustrator Martin Rowson, the court caricaturist of the prestigious newspaper The Guardian, seeks to depict. It is certainly a challenging task.
