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Marx and Manifesto


             During his student days at the universities of Bonn and Berlin, Marx studied history and philosophy and was strongly influenced by the works of Georg Wilhelm Freidrich Hegel. Hegel was the authority on Prussian philosophy, but Marx's ideas about questioning the current political and social issues led him to reject Hegelian thought. He was not a common person in his times by any means. To the dismay of his Father, he studied philosophy with greater interest than law. The death of his Father gave Marx the freedom to pursue his visions of a classless society. His liberal political views made him consider journalism as a career and in 1842 he became an editor of the Colonge newspaper Rheinische Zeitung (Wheen 95). Articles that he wrote criticizing political and social conditions involved him in controversy with the authorities. In 1843 he was compelled to resign and the paper was soon forced to discontinue publication. Marx then went to Paris, where he and Friedrich Engels collaborated to produce the Communist Manifesto. .
             The revolutions of 1789 and 1830 made the French capital a natural place to develop his theory on class struggles. It was here that Marx could observe a revolution by the working class against an oppressive elite group. In 1845 Marx was ordered to leave Paris because of his revolutionary activities. He settled in Brussels and began to organize and direct a network of revolutionary groups, called Communist Correspondence Committees. After these leagues were united from several cities in Europe, Marx and Engels were commissioned to formulate a statement of principles. The Communist Manifesto was a declaration of the objectives of the Communist League, published eventually in London shortly before the revolution in Paris. Engels initially wrote a draft in a question and answer form, he wrote to Marx insisting that they drop this form and create a Manifesto.


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