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January,
Marx and Engels set up a Communist Correspondence
Committee in Brussels, whose aim is to unite
advanced participants in working-class and
socialist movements of various countries
ideologically and organizationally. |
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August
15, on the instructions of Brussels
Communist Correspondence Committee, Engels moves
to Paris to establish closer links with French
socialists and communists and to prevail on them
to take part in correspondence committees and also
to help Paris communities to overcome the
influence of "true socialists". |
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Autumn,
at meeting of German workers in Paris, Engels
propagates communist ideas and criticizes
Proudhon's petty-bourgeois utopias and Karl Grun's
"true socialism". As a result of Engel's
efforts, most members of League of Just Paris
communities departed from "true
socialism" and Proudhonism.
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January
to April, Engels writes an article
"True Socialists", which becomes part of
"German Ideology". |
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January,
London Committee of the League of Just sends its
representative, Joseph Moll, to Marx in Brussels
and to Engels in Paris to invite them to join
League, take part in its reorganization and in
drawing up its program. Marx and Engels become
members of the League. |
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June
2, the First Congress of the League of Just
opens in London and becomes the in augural
congress of Communist League. Engels takes an
active part in the work of congress; he helps to
draw up the new rules to be approved in the next
congress. |
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July,
Marx' "Poverty of Philosophy", answer to
"Philosophy of Poverty" by M. Proudhon
appears in Brussels in French. |
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Engels
visits Marx in Brussels. |
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August,
Marx and Engels set up a German Worker's Society
in Brussels. |
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September
to February 1848, Marx and Engels regularly
contribute to Deutsche-Brusseler Zeitung"." |
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September
27, Engels takes part in the international
banquet of democrats in Brussels, which decides to
establish "Democratic Association". |
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October,
Engels returns to Paris. |
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November,
on the instruction of Paris Circle Committee of
Communist League, Engels works on "Principles
of Communism", League's draft program. |
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Marx
and Engels take an active part in the work of
Second Congress of Communist League in London.
Congress approves League's Rules and instructs
Marx and Engels to draw up its program. |
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Marx
and Engels speak in international meeting of
German Workers' Educational Society in London on
economic questions. |
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December,
Engels leaves London for Brussels. Marx and Engels
begin writing "Manifesto of Communist
Party". |
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Engels
goes to Paris, from Brussels. |
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