A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of Communism
All the Powers of old Europe have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre
Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies
Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power?
Where is the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties?
And where is the party that has not made the accusation against its reactionary adversaries?
Two things result from this fact
I. Communism is already acknowledged by all European Powers to be itself a Power
II. It is high time that Communists should openly, in the face of the whole world, publish their views, aims and tendencies
they must meet this nursery tale of the Spectre of Communism with a Manifesto of the party itself
To this end, Communists of various nationalities have assembled in London and sketched the following Manifesto
this manifesto is to be published in the English, French, German, Italian, Flemish and Danish languages
And now it is to be published in all the languages that Tranzlaty offers