Karl Marx and the Communist ManifestoBecause the first printing of the Communist Manifesto was limited and the distribution restricted, the Manifesto did not have much impact on society after its writing in 1848. this meant that few 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 insurrection of Paris against the French government, resurrected the idea of ​​communism which had been definitively banished only a few years after the publication of the Manifesto. This sparked widespread interest in the Manifesto among the ruling classes as well as the labor movement. In their introduction to the Communist Manifesto of 1872, Marx and Engels acknowledged the important influence of the Paris Commune on their thinking: "One thing in particular was proved by the Commune, namely that 'the working class cannot simply grab hold of ready-made products.” "[ii] The Manifesto would soon become the most widely read publication of the modern working class (Proletariat) movement. By the end of the 19th century, under the influence of the Internationals (communist organizations), Marx's ideas had become popular with the European trade movement, and the main socialist parties were committed to his ideas in theory, if not in practice. A major separation occurred, however, between those socialists who believed that violent revolution was inevitable and those, notably. Eduard Bernstein, who argued that socialism could be achieved through evolution, could cite Marx as the focal point of their article on humans worldwide ] Bob Jessop, The Communist Manifesto as a Historical Document, (March 21, 2002). [ii] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, Preface to the 1872 German edition, in Manifesto of the Communist Party, (New York: Pathfinder, 1987), 13.[iii] Paul Dorn, Two Months of Red Splendor: The Commune of Paris 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 (September 21, 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