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By Rhodri Evans This week's "reference point" is Marx's March Address of 1850, a follow-up to the Communist Manifesto of 1848. In the Manifesto Marx gave us a synthesis of his political movement, between about 1843 and 1847, from philosophic radicalism to a new sort of worker-organising communism. Others were moving the same way, if not as far or with the same depth of theorising. The 1840s were times of ferment. Famines, not only in Ireland, drove many of the urban poor to anger (and the rural poor too, though more of them to despair). The Chartists in Britain, the world's first organised workers' movement, burgeoned. There was a general strike in large parts of England in 1842. Conservative, authoritarian regimes, dominated by land magnates, had been imposed on Europe after 1815.
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