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In 1847 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were asked by the newly formed League of Communists to write a manifesto outlining its aims and policies. After a series of drafts, the Manifesto of the Communist Party (known since 1872 as The Communist Manifesto) was published in February 1848. This first edition was published in German and printed in London. Prior to 1871, the year of the Paris Commune, there were only two limited editions available in Swedish and English. However, the publication of a new German edition sparked a wave of massive circulation of The Communist Manifesto over the decades that followed. Several prefaces were subsequently written by Marx and Engels.