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Communism 1800 - 1864

  • 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