The Communist Manifesto illustrated Chapter One

'a Spectre Is Haunting Europe The Spectre Of CommunismAll The Powers Of Old Europe Have Entered Into AHoly Alliance To Exorcise This Spectre: Pope And Tsar, Metternich And Guizot, French Radicals And German Policespies...' ASpectre Toils Silently In Sunbaked FieldsIt Shuffles Through Dusty Village SquaresIt Slaves Amidst The Grime And Drudgery Of Factory FloorsIt Picks Through The Garbage Of Shantytown AlleysIt Floats Over Officetower Cubicles Row Upon RowWherever Capitalism Has Had Its Parade Our Spectre Follows QuietlyIt Settles Amongst The Alienated, The Impoverished, The ExploitedIt Bears Witness To Millions Of Silent ScreamsMore And More, We Glimpse That GhostBut Why AGraphic Edition? Put Simply, In Order To Reanimate The TextTo Make It Available To ANew AudienceTo Help Us Better Understand Our Innate Yearning For The Promise Of ABetter Tomorrow And To Reacquaint Us With APolitical Pamphlet That Forged The Ideological Foundations For One Of The Most Idealistic Yet Repressive Eras Of Human History.
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