Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto Because the first printing of the Communist Manifesto was limited and circulation limited, the Manifesto did not have much impact on society after its writing in 1848. This meant that not many people had access to the document. It was not until 1871, when the Paris Commune took place, that the Communist Manifesto began to have a huge impact on the working class around the world.[i] The Paris Commune, which was the Paris uprising against the French government , resurrected the idea of ​​communism which had been definitively banned a few years after the publication of the Manifesto. It created widespread interest in the Manifesto among the ruling classes and in the labor movement. In their introduction to the Communist Manifesto of 1872, Marx and Engels recognized the important influence of the Paris Commune on their thinking: state machinery and using it for their own purposes.'"[ii] The Manifesto would soon become the most widely read publication of the movement modern working class (Proletariat). By the end of the 19th century, through the influence of the In international organizations (communist organizations), Marx's ideas had become popular among the European business movement, and the main socialist parties were loyal to his ideas. in theory if not in practice. However, a great divide occurred between those socialists who believed that violent revolution was inevitable, and those, particularly Eduard Bernstein, who argued that socialism could be achieved through evolution, could quote Marx. as their... medium of study... about human beings throughout the world Notes[i] Bob Jessop, The Communist Manifesto as a Historical Document, (March 21, 2002).[ii] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Foreword to the 1872 German edition, in Manifesto of the Communist Party, (New York: Pathfinder, 1987), 13.[iii] Paul Dorn, Two Red Months Splendour: The Paris Commune and Marx's Theory of Revolution, (March 21 2002)[iv] Dorn[v] Dorn[vi] Paul Lewis, For Many, Marx's Manifesto Remains Relevant, The New York Times(21 September 1997).[vii] Lewis[viii] Jessop[ix] Philip J. Kain, Marx and Modern Political Theory, (Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1993), 360.[x] Kain, 360