Friedrich Engels

Sun Tzu

The Communist Manifesto and The Art of War Bundle, 2 in 1 Bundle

The Communist Manifesto and The Art of War are two timeless classics that would offer you immense knowledge. In fact, these two are often required reading in various courses. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote their Manifesto in December 1847, as a guide to the fundamental principles and practices of Communists. The Manifesto also predicted the ultimate downfall of the capitalist system. The Communist Manifesto was conceived as an outline of the basic beliefs of the Communist movement. The authors believed that Capital has stolen away the work of the artisan and peasant by building up factories to produce goods cheaply and only to pay them subsistence wages. If workers unite in a class struggle against the bourgeois, using riot and strikes as weapons, they will eventually overthrow the bourgeois and replace them as a ruling class. The Communist Manifesto caused a huge amount of discussion for its support for a forcible overthrow of the existing politics and society. This manifesto served as the platform of the Communist League and became one of the principal programmatic statements of the European socialist and communist parties in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Art of War is an influential ancient document written by Chinese military strategist Sun-Tzu. Sun-Tzu was a popular high-ranking military general, strategist and tactician. It is composed of 13 chapters and each one is devoted to a set of specific warfare skills and strategies. One of its most famous premises is that war should be avoided by diplomacy. Warfare should only be the last resort. If it cannot be avoided, it must be fought strategically to minimize damage and wasting resources. This text remains the most influential strategy text in East Asian warfare and has influenced both Eastern and Western military thinking, business tactics, legal strategy, lifestyles and beyond.