In 1844, Marx and Engels met and discovered they had similar principles. The idea of communism started with Karl Marx (Marxism) and Friedrich Engels in approximately 1848. The founders developed an idea of a society that had no property and that everyone worked for each other. This idea displays that individual people cannot own any property. Marx met Engels in Paris, where they became intellectuals. Marx was then exiled and moved to London with his family. Marx was a philosopher from Germany and a sociologist (Hammen). Marx was considered a political threat, so he had to flee authorities in the German states (Hammen). The Communist Correspondence Committee was founded by Marx. Marx and Engles wrote the Communist Manifesto, a political pamphlet
