Philosopher Slavoj Žižek examines the Communist Manifesto, which can also be used as a document of the times: he makes an inventory of which of the main ideas of Marxism should be considered further, and which it is advisable to get rid of for good. When writing the work, which has since been published in a hundred languages, the barely thirty-year-old publicist and philosopher Karl Marx and his co-author - and who ensured his independent existence as a thinker from the institutions - Friedrich Engels stated (with some rhetorical exaggeration and anticipating what was to come) that the specter of communism was haunting Europe. Since then, certain sentences in the text have become transitive verbs - used with different signs. The first Hungarian translation was published in 1896.