Abstract on the Communist Manifesto Karl Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto between December 1847 and February 1848 at the request of the Central Committee of the Communist League in London. This theoretical pamphlet containing merely thirty pages may be responsible for influencing more people between the late nineteenth and mid twentieth centuries than any other printed work of its time. Not only did this manifesto attempt to fulfill its primary purpose of unifying the League’s opposing fractions it also acted as a beacon to the oppress ....