'...the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.' The Modern South African Edition of the Communist Manifesto Includes: Leon Trotsky's Afrikaans Introduction to the 1937 edition with an English translation.

Neville Alexander's 2002 Introduction in isiZulu and English to the isiZulu translation of The Communist Manifesto. A new isiZulu translation of The Communist Manifesto. Jeremy Cronin's Introduction to this edition. As the first in the new series RADICAL PASTS, RADICAL FUTURES, this edition of The Communist Manifesto is a vantage point from where to view the lives, work and creativity of ordinary South Africans in the years 1937, 2002 & 2022, and a prompt to visit and re-visit Marx & Engels' urgent text.