It is it's the manifesto of the communist party but we should note that there that party here does not refer to a modern political party. It wasn't too long before the word came to mean something much more like political parties as we would now understand them. They had just essentially won a political battle within the communist league about its direction and they're kind of trying to do that with this document on more of a mass scale.
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