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March,
Marx and Engels write an "Address of Central
Authority of League", one of the first
documents summing up the proletariat's struggle in
revolution and outlining Communists' Program of
action in future struggle. The Address contains
the basic propositions of Marx' and Engels'
teaching on uninterrupted revolution. |
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March-November, Marx
and Engels put out six issues of "Neue
Reinische Zeitung, Politischokonomische
Revue". The journal publishes Marx'
"The Class Struggle in France", 1848 to
1850, Engels "The Campaign for the German
Imperial Constitution" and "The Peasant
War in Germany", as well as their joint
international reviews. In all these works, Marx
and Engels sum up the results of 1848-49
revolution and continue to develop their
revolutionary doctrine. |
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June,
Marx and Engels write a second "Address of
Central Authority to League", instructing
Communist League leaders in the localities on
questions of tactics and organization. |
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November,
on the proposal of London Circle of Communist
League, League's Cologne Central Authority expels
Willich-Schapper group for its disruptive
activities. |
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Mid-November,
Engels moves to Manchester and begins work with
Ermen & Engels Firm; this enables him to help
Marx family financially. |
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Late
November, Engels begins a systematic study of
military sciences. |
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December,
Engels begins learning Russian.
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May-June,
Police arrests members of Communist League's
Cologne Central Authority and several active
members of this organization. Prussian police
agents intensify spying on Marx and Engels. |
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June
1851-1862, Marx and Engels contribute to Chartist
periodicals, "Notes to People",
"People's Paper" and "The Friend of
People" and also help Chartist movement. |
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August
1851 to March 1862, Marx contributes to the
progressive American newspaper, "New York
Daily Tribune", and Engels helps him. Engels
writes a series of articles for the paper,
entitled "Revolution and Counter-Revolution
in Germany" and many others. In 10 years Marx
and Engels wrote a latge number of articles for
"Tribune" on the national liberation
movement, international relations, economics and
politics. |
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October
1851-1852, Engels studies Slav languages, history
and literature of Slav peoples and reads classic
Russian literature. |
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Dec.
3, 1851, In a letter to Marx, Engels gives a
thorough description on December 2 coup d'etat in
France. Some of the ideas Engels expounds in this
letter are used by Marx in his "Eighteenth
Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte". |
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Dec.
1851 to March 1852, Marx writes "Eighteenth
Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte", in which he
elaborates on the theory of revolution. Examining
1848-49 revolution in France, Marx arrives at this
important conclusion: The victorious proletariat
must tear down the bourgeois state machine. In May
1852, the treatise appears in New York in
"Die Revolution", a journal published by
Joseph Weydemeyer. |
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