National debt or public debt is the total debt a country owes to its citizens, governments of other countries or international financial organizations like the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF). The debt which a country owes its citizens is known as internal or domestic debt, while the debt owed to foreign governments or international financial organizations is known as external or foreign debt.

The communist manifesto is the basic document of communist thought, made up of the thoughts of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels on political, economic and sociological matters. In it the pillars of both original Socialism and Marxism are embodied.