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