Karl Marx?s 1848 text is reframed in this revised NortonCritical Edition in the context of twenty-first-century theoreticaldebates, capitalist globalization, the information technologyrevolution, and contemporary struggles up to and including the 2011?Arab Spring.? Simultaneously extolled in its day as truth incarnate and theinspiration for a life-and-death struggle for humankind?sliberation and condemned as the vilest of propaganda on behalf ofdespotism, the Communist Manifesto continues to be themost potent literary symbol of the struggle over the form andcontent of freedom. This revised Norton Critical Edition provides students with thebest documentation and scholarship with which to appreciatethe Communist Manifesto?s complexities,context, and legacy of controversy. The Second Edition interpretsthe Manifesto in relation to the dominance of globalizedfinancial capital, socialist feminist critique, postmodernism, andthe fragmentation/transformation of the global working class in thetwenty-first century. The volume includes a carefully annotated text ofthe Communist Manifesto, the editor?s historicaland philosophical introduction, and a chronology of historicalevents surrounding publication of the Manifesto.Fifteen seminal interpretations?eight of them new to theSecond Edition?have been collected. New contributions includeLucien Laurat onthe Manifesto?s sociological standpoint asadapted to the modernization of the mid-twentieth century; WendyLynne Lee?s assessment of the Manifesto?skeyconcepts, metaphors, and arguments from a radical-feministperspective; the article that served as the basisfor Empire, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri?simportant postmodernist adaptation of the Manifestofortwenty-first century conditions; and noteworthy responses to Hardtand Negri?s arguments by Slavoj Zizek and by Taki Fotopoulosand Alexandros Gezerlis. A Selected Bibliography and Index are also included.