Communist Correspondence Committee

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The Communist Correspondence Committees were an association of communists founded by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in early 1846 with groups in Brussels , London and Paris in order to promote an organizational and ideological union of revolutionary proletarian movements across national borders.

history

The Brussels Committee was, so to speak, the headquarters of the Correspondence Committees, in which, for example, Karl Marx, Wilhelm Wolff , Philipp Gigot , Louis Heilberg , Sebastian Seiler , Ferdinand Wolff , Edgar von Westphalen and Joseph Weydemeyer were active.

At the end of March 1846, at a meeting of the Brussels committee, Marx and Engels criticized the “true socialism” of Karl Grün and the “craft communism” of Wilhelm Weitling , who took part in the meeting and with which it then came to a break. Moses Hess also distances himself from them, alongside Marx and Engels, a co-author of the book “ Die deutsche Ideologie ” .

Another committee was established in London between May and June 1846, formed by Joseph Maximilian Moll and Karl Schapper , among others . In June 1846, the Wuppertal communist Gustav Adolf Koettgen approached the Brussels committee and suggested that the German communists should inform each other of their actions, which the committee welcomes according to its orientation.

In August 1846, Engels went to Paris and formed the Paris Committee there, on behalf of the Brussels Committee, to disseminate the ideas of the committees under the “ League of the Just ”.

From 1846 to 1847 Heinrich Bürgers and Roland Daniels worked in Cologne for the correspondence committee and Georg Weber in Kiel.

At the London conference in 1847 , at which the “ League of Communists ” was formed, for which Marx later wrote the “ Communist Manifesto ” , all the committees were present, for Paris Engels and for Brussels Wolff.

The commercial traveler Georg Weerth also worked as a courier for the committees and later for the “Bund der Kommunisten” .

literature

  • Karl Obermann : On the history of the Communist Correspondence Committee in 1846, especially in the Rhineland and Westphalia . In: Contributions to the history of the German labor movement . Berlin 1962, special issue, p. 116 ff.
  • Walter Schmidt : Wilhelm Wolff as a member of the Communist Correspondence Committee 1846 . In: Contributions to the history of the labor movement . Berlin 1964, issue 3, p. 443 ff.
  • Herwig Förder, Martin Hundt , Jefim Kandel, Sofia Lewiowa (eds.): Bund der Kommunisten. Documents and Materials, Volume 1: 1836-1849 . Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, pp. 322-446.
  • Herwig Förder: Marx and Engels on the eve of the revolution . Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1960, pp. 52–74. Chapter: "The dispute with Weitling (March 30, 1846)", "The 'Circular Against Wars' (May 11, 1846")
  • David Rjazanov : Marx and Engels - not just for beginners . Rotbuch Verlag, Berlin 1973, pp. 57–61. ISBN 3-88022-005-0 reading (English) .
  • Walter Schmidt: On the controversy about the New York "People's Tribune" from May to October 1846 . In: Central Institute for Philosophy (ed.): Thinking alternatives . Berlin 1991, pp. 62-71.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
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