The Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto was published on February 21, 1848, and is one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League's purposes and program. It presents an analytical approach to the class struggle (historical and present) and the problems of capitalism, but does not offer much of a prediction of communism's potential future forms.

The Communist Manifesto has been the bedrock document for most socialist and communist movements throughout the world. The concepts Marx and Engels laid out, particularly the concepts of class struggle that each man belived defined capitalism.

The Communist Manifesto in The Gladiator
In an alternate where the Soviet Union won the Cold War, every child in the world began learning The Communist Manifesto in primary school, and so were expected to know it by rote in adulthood.