Marx relocates to Paris and turns to political economy

As editor of a liberal-radical newspaper, Marx confronted censorship and questions of poverty, forest rights, and the state’s defense of property. Reporting on poor peasants’ customary rights helped...

Engels visited the Rheinische Zeitung office while traveling to Manchester. Their first encounter was cordial but not yet the close partnership later remembered; they met again in Paris in 1844...

Sent to the family’s textile firm, Engels encountered industrial capitalism at its British center. He observed factory labor and urban poverty while remaining financially connected to the...

The newspaper was shut down after sustained censorship. Marx’s experience showed how political speech was restricted to protect the existing order, and led him to reconsider the limits of liberal...

Marx married Jenny von Westphalen after a long engagement. Their shared life included exile, poverty, illness, childcare, and political work; the surviving record also reveals how much Marx’s public...

The journal printed Marx’s critique of Hegel’s philosophy of right and his account of the Jewish question. The essays linked emancipation to social transformation, though later readers debate their...

Engels’s essay connected private property, competition, and economic crisis, offering an early socialist critique of political economy. Marx later described it as an important contribution to their...

In notebooks written during 1844, Marx examined alienated labor, private property, and the relation between human capacities and production. The manuscripts were not published until 1932, and later...

After an earlier brief encounter, Marx and Engels met again in Paris and discovered strong agreement about class conflict and revolutionary politics. Their collaboration was productive but not...

Under Prussian pressure, French authorities ordered Marx to leave. In Brussels he worked with Engels and other exiles, developing a critique of idealist philosophy and building cross-border...