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"Rheinische Zeitung" was established.
Karl Marx became a journalist for the radical newspaper "Rheinische Zeitung", starting to express his views on socia issues and economics. -
Marx and Engels met.
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The Communist League
The first Marxist political party, in which Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were the dominant personalities, was established in London, England. -
The Communist Manifesto
Marx and Engels were commissioned to write a declaration of the League's position. Next year "The Communist Manifesto" was published. -
The First International
Establishment of the International Workingmen's Association, also callesd the First International, 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 working class and class struggle. -
"Capital" is published.
"Capital: Critique of Political Economy" is published. Karl Marx proposes that the motivating force of capitalism is in the exploitation of labour, whose unpaid work is the ultimate source of profit and surplus value. -
Marxism-Leninism
The Bolsheviks created the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.They came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which would later become the chief constituent of the Soviet Union in 1922. -
Rise of Stalin
Joseph Stalin was appointed general secretary of the party's Central Committee. -
Western Marxism
After Russian Revolution in 1917, Western Marxism is found by Karl Korsch, Antonio Gramsci, and György Lukács, who wrote "History and Class Consciousness" in 1923. -
The Communist Party of China
Mao Zedong became a Chinese communist revolutionary and a founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death.
