Hague Congress (1872)

1872 Hague Congress
Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx at the Hague Congress
Date(s)2–7 September 1872
Location(s)The Hague
Participants65 delegates from 15 “regional” organizations
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Café Concert Excelsior, Lange Lombardstraat 109, The Hague. Location of the Hague Congress of 1872

The Hague Congress was the fifth congress of the International Workingmen's Association (IWA), held from 2–7 September 1872 in The Hague, the Netherlands.

A total of 65 delegates from 15 “regional” organizations attended, a third of delegates did not attend. At this congress, a split occurred between the Marxists and the Bakuninists, when the Marx-aligned delegates voted to expel Mikhail Bakunin and move the General Council from London to New York, precipitating the organization's decline.[1]

The Bakunites held a separate congress a week later in Saint-Imier (Switzerland), where they formed the Anti-authoritarian International.

  1. ^ Leier, Mark (2006). Bakunin: The Creative Passion. Seven Stories Press. pp. 298. ISBN 978-1-58322-894-4.

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