๐ป A SPECTRE is hauting ๐ช๐บ Europeโthe spectre of ๐ Communism.All the powers of old Europe have entered into a โ holy alliance to exorcise this spectre; ๐ป๐ฆ Pope and ๐ท๐บ Czar, ๐ฆ๐น Metternich and ๐ซ๐ท Guizot, French Radicals and ๐ฉ๐ช German ๐ต๐พ police-spies.Where is the ๐ party in opposition that has not been decried as ๐ communistic by its ๐ opponents in ๐ power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled ๐ back the ๐ฅ branding reproach of ๐ Communism, against the more ๐ advanced opposition parties, as well as its ๐ต reactionary adversaries?2โฃ Two things result from this ๐ fact.I. ๐ Communism is already acknowledged by all ๐ช๐บ European Powers to be itself a ๐ Power.II. It is ๐ป high ๐ time that ๐ Communists should ๐ openly, in the ๐ค face of the ๐บ whole world, ๐ publish their ๐ views, their ๐น aims, their :seemsgood: tendencies, and meet this ๐ถ๐พ nursery tale of the ๐ป Spectre of ๐ Communism with a ๐ Manifesto of the ๐ party itself. To this ๐ end, ๐ Communists of various ๐ด nationalities have assembled in ๐ฌ๐ง London, and ๐ sketched the following ๐ manifesto, to be ๐ published in the ๐ฌ๐ง English, ๐ซ๐ท French, ๐ฉ๐ช German, ๐ฎ๐น Italian, ๐ง๐ช Flemish, and ๐ฉ๐ฐ Danish ๐ฃ languages.