Marx as a Migrant – A digital narrative

Karl Marx lived a long life as a migrant. Fleeing from the Prussian state, censorship and possible arrest, important stops on his journey were Paris, Brussels and London. These cities shaped his political activities, his engagement with political fellow-travellers, as well as his intellectual development and thus his entire work.

At the click of a mouse, you can follow Marx as a migrant from city to city. You can not only immerse yourself in his time, but also discover that even today, traces of his life and work continue to be seen in Paris, Brussels and London.

Each station takes about 45 minutes.

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Marx as a Migrant

  • Brussels
  • Trip to Manchester

Chartists and the League of the Just in London

During an interim stop in London, Marx and Engels meet with the typesetter Karl Schapper from Hessen and Heinrich Bauer, a cobbler from Franconia, the Cologne clockmaker Joseph Moll and the tailor and communist agitator Wilhelm Weitling from Magdeburg.

The men are among the spokespeople for the League of the Just in England. An underground society of socialist- and communist-minded craftsmen and workers who, among other things, run the German Workers’ Educational Association in London – quasi as the organisation’s above-ground arm.