1878
b
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Engels
writes "Natural Science in the Spirit
World", an article which he later
incorporated in "Dialects of Nature". |
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March,
American "Labor Standard" publishes
"Working Men of Europe in 1877", a
series of articles by Engels, examining the
working-class movement in European countries. |
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September
12, Engels'
wife, Lizzie Burns, deceased. |
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Oct.
19, to
suppress the working-class and socialist movement
in Germany, Bismarck's government set up
provocations and gets Reichstag to enact an
Exceptional Law against the Harmful and dangerous
Aspirations of Social-Democracy (better known as
Anti-Socialist Law). |
1879
b
b
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Sept.
17-18, Marx
and Engels write a Circular Letter to August Bebel,
Wilhelm Liebknecht, Wilhelm Bracke and other
social-democratic leaders in Germany, criticizing
opportunism and any conciliation with it. |
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Sept.
28, a pilot
issue of "Der Sozialdemokrat", the
central organ of German Social-Democracy, appears
underground in Zurich. Marx and Engels contribute
to the newspaper. |
1880
b
b
b
b
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January-March,
to propagate the ideas of scientific socialism in
France, at the request of French socialist Paul
Lafargue, Engels rewrites three chapters of Anti-Duhring,
producing a treatise in its own right, which
appears in Lafargue's French translation in
"La Revue Socialist", Paris, March 20,
April 20 and May 5, and then as a separate
pamphlet under the title "Socialisme Utopique
et Socialisme Scientifique". |
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End
of February,
Engels writes an article, "Herr Bismarck's
Socialism", for "Egalite", the
newspaper of French Workers' Party |
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Early
May, in
London, Marx and Engels meet Jules Guesde and Paul
Lafargue to discuss the program of French Workers'
Party. Drawn up with the aid of Marx and Engels,
the program was adopted in Havre Congress,
November. |
1881
b
b
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to
1882, Engels studies the history of
Germany, collects requisites material and writes
two treatises, "Concerning the History of
Ancient Germans" and "Frankish
Period". |
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March
21, Marx and Engels send greetings to Slav
meeting, held in London, on the 10th anniversary
of Paris Commune. |
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May-August,
Engels writes for "Labor Standard", a
daily of English trade unions published in London.
Contributing 12 articles, Engels tries to lay the
ground for socialist propaganda in English
working-class movement. |
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Dec.
2, Jenny, Karl Marx' wife, deceased. Engels
writes an obituary for "Sozialdemokrat";
it was published on December 8. |
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