Day: September 20, 2015

Rise of socialist ideas (up to Marx); spread of Marxian Socialism- Part IV The First International (1864-1876) The International Workingmen’s Association (1864–1876), often called the First International, was an international organization which aimed at uniting a variety of different left-wing socialist, communist and anarchist political groups and trade union organizations that were based on the […]

Rise of socialist ideas (up to Marx); spread of Marxian Socialism- Part III Some other forms of Socialism Anarchism: This is the most radical form of socialism. Originally, the anarchists were affiliated with the communists, but they were expelled in 1869 at the fourth Congress of the First International. selfstudyhistory.com Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, who […]

Rise of socialist ideas (up to Marx); spread of Marxian Socialism- Part II Karl Marx (1818- 1883) He was born at Trier in 1818. His father was a lawyer of Jewish extraction. Marx had to leave Germany because of his revolutionary activities and spent rest of his life in exile in London. He died in […]