| 1 | Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin, are they not all dead? | |
| 2 | Marx and Engels were the first socialists to support trade unions. | |
| 3 | There was some intellectual interest in Marxism, and fragments of the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels were translated into Chinese as early as 1907. | |
| 4 | When the "higher stage of Communism" is achieved, the state will wither away, according to Engels. | |
| 5 | Summary: Marx and Engels, born in Germany in 1818 and 1820, respectively, were the intellectual godfathers of communism. |