Karl Marx, as a key figure in…

Karl Marx, as a key figure in the International Workingmen’s Association, has been involved in the struggle against the anarchist wing centered around Mikhail Bakunin.

Although Marx had won this contest, the transfer of the seat of the General Council from London to New York in 1872, which Marx supports, leads to the decline of the International.

The most important political event during the existence of the International had been the Paris Commune of 1871 when the citizens of Paris had rebelled against their government and held the city for two months.

In response to the bloody suppression of this rebellion, Marx had written one of his most famous pamphlets, The Civil War in France, a defense of the Commune.