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Communist League
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international political party established in June 1847 in London, England
Key facts
- Leader
- Karl Schapper
- Founder
- Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Karl Schapper
- Founded
- 1 June 1847 ; 179 years ago ( 1847-06-01 )
- Dissolved
- November 1852 ; 173 years ago ( 1852-11 )
- Merger of
- League of the Just , Communist Correspondence Committee
- Headquarters
- London , Cologne (after 1848)
- Newspaper
- Kommunistische Zeitschrift (1847), Neue Rheinische Zeitung (1848–1849), Neue Rheinische Zeitung Revue (1850)
- Ideology
- Communism , Marxism , Revolutionary socialism
- Political position
- Far-left
- Colours
- Red
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Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Bund der Kommunisten
- Country
- Germany
- Founded by
- Karl Marx
- Headquarters
- Cologne
- Chairperson
- Karl Schapper
- Political ideology
- communism
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- inception
- 1847-06-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1852-11-00
- replaced by
- International Workingmen's Association
- archives at
- German Federal Archives
- replaces
- League of the Just
- political alignment
- far-left politics
- color
- red
- sRGB color hex triplet
- CE0000
- house publication
- Neue Rheinische Zeitung
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Encyclopedic overview
The Communist League (German: Bund der Kommunisten) was an international political party established on 1 June 1847 in London, England. The organisation was formed through the merger of the League of the Just, headed by Karl Schapper, and the Communist Correspondence Committee of Brussels, Belgium, in which Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were the dominant personalities. The Communist League is regarded as the first Marxist political party and it was on behalf of this group that Marx and Engels wrote the Communist Manifesto late in 1847. The Communist League was formally disbanded in November 1852, following the Cologne Communist Trial.
Organisational history
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