The International Working Man's Association - Episode 10.1

In 1864, a group of the socialist, quasi-socialist, and socialist adjacent leaders came together in London and founded the International Working Man's Association. That is where we are going to begin. The series will actually open with a kind of quasi prologue because in the latter third of the 19th century, Europe was teeming with professional revolutionaries. They wanted to take down not just the lingering vestiges of ancient feudalism, but also the new bourgeois capitalist oppressors who had replaced the old aristocracy. But after 1848, these revolutionaries were few in number and scattered across Europe,. finding refuge where they could in relatively tolerant enclaves in Switzerland, in Belgium, London, and