An early attempt at a summation of what was already a tendency in the workers movement, these ‘Principles’ were written by Engels in 1847 while living in Paris, where the Communist League tasked him to rewrite their program.This became the draft brought by Engels to the Communist League conference in London that year. Marx and Engels were then charged with producing a proclamation for the League which would become the Communist Manifesto. Published here in English for the first time by the Communist Party’s Little Red Book Series in 1925. Online text included here.

Principles of Communism by Frederick Engels. Little Red Library No. 3. Translated by Max Bedacht. Daily Worker Publishing, Chicago. 1925.

Contents: Introduction by Max Bedacht, The Principles of Communism Twenty-Five Questions and Answers, Appendix, Notes. 32 pages.

PDF of original pamphlet: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/11/prin-com.htm