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In which year did Marx and Engels publish the Communist Manifesto?
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- It appeared in the same year as revolutions across the European continent.
- Eighteen forty-eight.
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1848
Why
1848, weeks before revolution broke out in Paris, Vienna, Berlin and Milan. The coincidence is genuine and misleading: the pamphlet had almost no readership at the time and became famous decades later, so it did not cause the events it is remembered alongside.
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