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Robert Owen
Welsh industrialist Robert Owen takes charge of a mill at New Lanark and develops it as an experiment in paternalistic socialism -
Geogre Rapp
George Rapp and his followers establish a utopian community in Pennsylvania and call it Harmony -
Robert Owen #2
The English socialist Robert Owen purchases New Harmony from the Rappists, to test his utopian theories in a new context -
Friedrich Engel
The young Friedrich Engels is sent from Germany to manage the family cotton-spinning factory in Manchester -
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels meet in Paris and become life-long friends -
Friedrich Engels #2
Friedrich Engels, after running a textile factory in Manchester, publishes The Condition of the Working Class in England -
London Engles
At a congress in London Engels persuades a group of radical Germans to adopt the name Communist League -
Communist Manifesto
The Communist Manifesto, by Marx and Engels, is published in Paris with the ringing slogan: 'Workers of the world, unite!' -
Karl Marx #2
Expelled from Germany after the year of revolutions, Marx makes his home in tolerant London -
Karl Marx #3
The First International is established in London, with Karl Marx soon emerging as the association's leader