History of economic thought its critics. Socialism emerged in response to the miserable living and working conditions of the working class in the new industrial era, and the classical economics from which it sprang. The economic and political theory published in "The Communist Manifesto" (1848) and "Das Kapital" (1867) combined with the dialectic theory of history inspired by Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831) to provide a revolutionary critique of nineteenth-century capitalism. In 1845 German radical Friedrich Engels (1820–1895) published "The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844", describing workers in Manchester as "the most unconcealed pinnacle of social misery in our day." After Marx
Prague Manifesto Prague Manifesto The Prague Manifesto (in Russian: Пражский Манифест) was a document written by several members of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (KONR), an anti-communist coalition of former Soviet military and citizens who aimed to overthrow Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and establish a non-communist government in Russia, in alliance with Nazi Germany during the Second World War. The manifesto was published on 14 November 1944. The Manifesto opened with a preamble that strongly criticized Stalin for crimes against the people of the USSR, including genocide via repression and engineered famines, and suppression of personal freedoms.