In the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels laid out their understanding of how a socialist revolution would unfold. Emanuele Saccarelli shows how that notion changed and evolved, in the minds of Marx, Engels, and a number of subsequent socialist thinkers who took part in debates over the value of reformism versus revolution.

Carver and Farr, eds., The Cambridge Companion to The Communist Manifesto Cambridge University Press, 2015

Emanuele Saccarelli, Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism Routledge, 2009 (paper)

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