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Chronology of Life and Works Chronology of Life and Works 1818 Karl Marx is born on May 5 in Trier, in Rhenish Prussia, from a Jewish family. His father Heinrich was a brilliant lawyer, of liberal ideas, later to become attorney general, converted to Protestantism for political reasons. 1835 Marx obtains his high school diploma in Trier and enrolls in the faculty of Jurisprudence at the University of Bonn. 1836 Marx transfers to the University of Berlin, where he continues to study law and becomes passionate about philosophy. He comes in contact with the “young Hegelians” (Bruno Bauer and others) and studies Hegel’s philosophy thoroughly. 1838 Marx’s father dies. 1841 Marx obtains a degree in philosophy from the University of Jena, with a dissertation about The Difference Between the Democritean and Epicurean Philosophy of Nature. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive 207 license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 S. Petrucciani, The Ideas of Karl Marx, Marx, Engels, and Marxisms, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52351-0 208 CHRONOLOGY OF LIFE AND WORKS 1842 Marx abandons his designs toward an academic career (not practicable in an ever more reactionary Prussia) and devotes himself to political journalism, collaborating with the “Rheinische Zeitung”, of which he becomes chief editor. In the journal’s office, Marx meets Engels for the first time. 1843 The “Rheinische Zeitung” is closed by the Prussian government, and it publishes its last issue on March 31. On June 19, Marx marries Jenny von Westphalen, and at the end of the year, they both move to Paris. 1844 In Paris, together with Arnold Ruge, Marx founds the “Deutsch- Französische Jahrbücher” (French-German Annals), which will manage to publish just one issue, containing two essays by Marx: Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right,andOn the Jewish Question. The journal includes writ- ings by Heine, Herweg, Hess, and the essay by Engels, much appreciated by Marx, Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy. Throughout the year, Marx begins the systematic study of political economy, writing the so-called Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844. 1845 Together with Engels, Marx publishes The Holy Family. He is expelled from France and moves to Bruxelles, where Engels reaches him. 1846 Marx and Engels write The German Ideology, a critique of the Hegelian left destined to remain unpublished, which is also the first formulation of the basic tenets of historical materialism. 1847 Marx publishes The Poverty of Philosophy, an harsh refutation of Proud- hon’s Philosophy of Poverty. Marx and Engels join the League of the Just, soon to be re-named Communist League. In the second congress of the League, held in London from November 28 to December 8, Marx and Engels are given the task of writing the Manifesto of the Communist Party. CHRONOLOGY OF LIFE AND WORKS 209 1848 In February, the Manifesto of the Communist Party is published in London. In Paris, the February revolution starts; Marx reaches the French capital. In April, after revolution erupts in Germany, Marx goes to Cologne, where he founds the “Neue Rheinische Zeitung”, a daily democratic newspaper, which begins publications on June 10. 1849 The “Neue Rheinische Zeitung” is forced to cease publication after just a year. Marx is expelled by Germany and moves to Paris and from there to London, where he arrives in August. In September, he is joined there by his family. 1850 Marx resumes the publication of the “Neue Rheinische Zeitung”, as a periodic journal, where he publishes his essay devoted to an examination of the 1848 revolution in France, later collected in the book The Class Struggles in France 1848 to 1850. 1851 Marx withdraws from active politics and, to support his family perennially struggling with poverty, he begins to collaborate with a radical American newspaper, the New York Daily Tribune. 1852 Continuing his reflection on the class struggles in France, Marx writes The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, in which he analyzes the Bonapartist coup of December 1851. 1853 Marx publishes Revelations Concerning the Communist Trial in Cologne, defending the German communists persecuted by the law. 1857–1858 Marx writes the Outline of the Critique of Political Economy, a first draft of his economic system, which will remain unpublished. 1859 Marx publishes A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy. 210 CHRONOLOGY OF LIFE AND WORKS 1861–1863 Marx works on Capital and to what will later become the Theories of Surplus Value (the fourth book of Capital, devoted to the history of economic doctrines). 1863–1865 Marx writes a new draft of his economic work. 1864 The International Workingmen’s Association is founded. Marx writes its Provisional Statutes and Inaugural Address. 1866 Marx writes the last version of the first book of Capital, which will be published in Hamburg in 1867. 1870 Speaking for the General Council of the International, Marx writes two Addresses concerning the French-Prussian war. 1871 Marx writes the third address, The Civil War in France, in which he examines the brief revolutionary experience of the Paris Commune. 1872 Marx clashes with Bakunin. To protect the International from Anarchic influences, at the Hague congress Marx proposes to move its General Council to New York. As a result, the activities of the organization wane, until the International disbands in 1876. 1875 Marx writes critical notes to Bakunin’s book State and Anarchy,andthe Critique of the Gotha Program. 1881 Marx’s wife, Jenny, dies. 1883 Marx dies in London on March 14, and on the 17, he is buried in the Highgate cemetery. Bibliography Andolfi, Ferruccio. L’egoismo e l’abnegazione. 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