Statement of the Secretariat of the European Communist Initiative for the 200 years since the birth of Karl Marx.
"The philosophers have only
interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to
change it”.
200 years ago, οn May 5th 1818, in the
city of Trier of Prussia, the great revolutionary Karl Marx was born.
Marx had a decisive contribution to the foundation of the
revolutionary worldview of the working class as well to the economic,
political and philosophical thought of humanity. He was connected
with Friedrich Engels and with their decisive contribution they
played a key role in the first revolutionary groups of Paris. He
consistently fought against various petty bourgeois theories on
socialism that were dominant in that period. Following his
deportation to Brussels in 1845, he joined the “Communist League”
along with Engels and participated in its 2nd Congress where they
played a vital role in the adoption of revolutionary positions.
Commissioned by the Congress they wrote the famous and unparalleled
work “The Communist Manifesto”, which was published in February
1848.