Marx had an opportunity to make his own ideas the basis of communist activities when he went to London in December 1847 to attend a Congress of the newly formed Communist League. In lengthy debates he defended his view of how communism would come about, and in the end he and Engels were given the task of putting down the doctrines of the League in simple language. The result was The Communist Manifesto, published in February 1848. It was to become the classic outline of Marx’s theory.
