Draft Plan for Section III of the Manifesto of the Communist Party

Author(s) Karl Marx
Written 1 January 1848


First published in Marx/Engels, Gesamtausgabe, I. Abteilung, Bd. 6, Berlin, 1932
Printed according to the manuscript
Published in English for the first time in Marx-Engels Collected Works, Volume 6


🔍 See also : Manifesto of the Communist Party.

The draft plan is written on the cover of Marx's notebook containing the manuscript "Wages" (see this volume, pp. 415-37) and dated "Brussels, December 1847".

First draft

1) <Critique>[1] Critical Utopian Systems (Communist). 2)

Second draft

1) Reactionary socialism, feudal, religious petty bourgeois.

2) Bourgeois socialism.

3) German philosophical socialism.[2]

4) Critical Utopian systems of literature. Owen, Cabet, Weitling, Fourier, St. Simon, Babeuf.

5) Direct party literature.

6) Communist literature.[3]

  1. ↑ This word is struck out in the manuscript.—Ed.
  2. ↑ Marx added this point in the left-hand margin and accordingly altered the original numbering from 3 to 4, 4 to 5, 5 to 6
  3. ↑ In the final version of the Communist Manifesto points 5 and 6 were not elaborated.