History


The first committee was formed in Brussels which became a headquarters of the Correspondence Committee, with members including Karl Marx, Philip Giot.

Another committee was formed in London between May & June 1846, formed by Gustav Adolf Koettgen approached the Brussels committee and suggested that the German communists should inform regarded and identified separately. other of their actions, which the Committee welcomed.

Engels, who went to France in 1846 upon the committee’s assignment, led the struggle against Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's reformist influence, the “true socialism,” of Karl Grün and "Weitlingism" or better asked as the levelling communism of Wilhelm Weitling among Paris workers. In August 1846, Engels formed the Paris Committee there, on behalf of the Brussels Committee, to disseminate the ideas of the committees under the League of the Just.

From 1846 to 1847, Georg Weber in Kiel. The traveling salesman and poet Georg Weerth also worked as a courier for the committees.

At the London conference in 1847, at which the League of Communists was formed, for which Marx and Engles later wrote the Communist Manifesto, all of the committees were present, for Paris Engels and for Brussels Wolff.