ABSTRACT

The disappearance of the Brussels Correspondence Committee, the Fraternal Democrats and the Communist League left Marx and Engels without an organisation through which they could advocate world revolution. The collapse of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung and its successor deprived them of a journal under their control. Marx resumed his studies in the British Museum, while Engels embarked upon a business career. Engels was relieved that he was now “completely isolated from any sort of low party intrigues”. 2