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practical programme for the Party. Such was the origin of the following
Manifesto, the manuscript of which travelled to London to be printed a
few weeks before the February Revolution. First published in German, it
has been republished in that language in at least twelve different
editions in Germany, England, and America. It was published in English
for the first time in 1850 in the _Red Republican_, London, translated
by Miss Helen Macfarlane, and in 1871 in at least three different
translations in America. The french version first appeared in Paris
shortly before the June insurrection of 1848, and recently in _Le
Socialiste_ of New York. A new translation is in the course of
preparation. A Polish version appeared in London shortly after it was
first published in Germany. A Russian translation was published in
Geneva in the 'sixties. Into Danish, too, it was translated shortly
after its appearance.

However much that state of things may have altered during the last
twenty-five years, the general principles laid down in the Manifesto
are, on the whole, as correct today as ever. Here and there, some detail
might be improved. The practical application of the principles will
depend, as the Manifesto itself states, everywhere and at all times, on
the historical conditions for the time being existing, and, for that
reason, no special stress is laid on the revolutionary measures proposed
at the end of Section II. That passage would, in many respects, be very
differently worded today. In view of the gigantic strides of Modern
Industry since 1848, and of the accompanying improved and extended
organization of the working class, in view of the practical experience
gained, first in the February Revolution, and then, still more, in the
Paris Commune, where the proletariat for the first time held political
power for two whole months, this