Communist manifesto, socialist landmark

Re-read for me.

An introductory text straight from the source. Doesn't get into the nitty-gritty (only about 50 pages, after all), but does provide a basic exploration and codification of Marxist thought / philosophy. That said, there are quite a few moving parts and lines of thought here. This is a hugely influential and long-lasting text for a reason.

A lot of great quotes in this pamphlet and is written in fairly straightforward language.

A good jumping-off point to longer, more dense and complex works.

I think it's pretty good. It's pretty polemical and lays out the political goals of communists, it doesn't really get into Marxist philosophy and the methods in which Marx comes to his conclusions though. I'd probably recommend "Socialism: Utopian and Scientific" as a better introduction to Marxism.

Manifesto of the Communist Party by Karl Marx (1948)