Marxist historiography the liberatory intent of Marxist historiography; such practitioners often refer to their work as "marxian" or "Marxian". Friedrich Engels' most important historical contribution was "Der deutsche Bauernkrieg" ("The German Peasants' War"), which analysed social warfare in early Protestant Germany in terms of emerging capitalist classes. "The German Peasants' War" indicate the Marxist interest in history from below and class analysis, and attempts a dialectical analysis. Marx's most important works on social and political history include "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon", "The Communist Manifesto", "The German Ideology", and those chapters of "Das Kapital" dealing with the historical emergence of capitalists
The Christian Manifesto that the church could make its position understood by the largely non-Christian Chinese population who shared their patriotism but not their religion. Before the manifesto, the Chinese Church had separated church and state matters, but according to Oi, "The Christian Manifesto" marked a turning point in this regard. The Christian Manifesto "Direction of Endeavor for Chinese Christianity in the Construction of New China", commonly known as "The Christian Manifesto" or "The Three-Self Manifesto", was a political manifesto of Protestants in China whereby they backed the newly-founded People's Republic of China (PRC) and the leadership of the Communist Party of China