Communist Manifesto (Marxists Internet Archive)

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The Communist Manifesto (1848)

These are adaptations, not the original. The original wording is always shown first. Each adapted version restates the same passage at about a grade 4, grade 7, or grade 10 reading level without adding or removing ideas. Quote the original in student writing.

Original wording

“The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win.”

Adapted · about grade 4

Workers have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a whole world to win.

Adapted · about grade 7

The working class has nothing to lose but its chains. It has a world to win.

Adapted · about grade 10

The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains; they have a world to win.

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