On the Traces de Karl Marx

This walk leads us through the center of Brussels along the streets and squares where Marx stayed and worked. This walk is also an immersion into the very young Belgium, just independent. At that time of uninhibited capitalism, this tiny country was the second industrial power in the world! WHAT WILL YOU DISCOVER? Undesirable in Germany and France because of his ideas, Karl Marx went into exile in Brussels in 1845, then a land of asylum for revolutionaries. La Belgique offered him a residence permit “on the condition that he does not publish on the current political situation.” Marx, accompanied by his friend Engels, would nevertheless write one of the flagship works of his life as a philosopher: Le Manifeste du Parti Communiste! The bubbling of the city, its revolutionary breeding ground, but also the capitalist turn that society was taking would make Marx’s Belgian stay a turning point in his thinking and his work. This walk leads us through the center of Brussels along the streets and squares where Marx stayed and worked. On the program of the walk, among others: – Les Galeries Saint Hubert in the middle of the 19th century – His stay near the cathedral Sainte Gudule – Place Royale: his contact with the revolutionaries of the Belgian revolution – The discussions he led in an apartment at Grand Sablon – His arrest and expulsion to the prison Amigo Balade with reduced availability. The guide who accompanies you, a young retiree and specialist in Marx, is not in Brussels full-time: Remember to book well in advance!