When you lookat 18th C Europe; France was huge and had alliances with russia with germany in the middle. The french revolution woke everybody up (the british whigs quickly moved to grant more freedoms to the average man). Marx and Engels were born in german rhineland and became labour stirrers within the new industries before being booted out. Together they evolved marxism which then politicised by lenin in the russian revolution.
Marx was a jew and Engels a free mason and the germans did not want communism or socialism, they wanted a better germany. Freemasons were alleged to have drafted all the major manifestos incl Treaty Versaille. So Hitler was on solid ground when he denounced freemasons and jews in mein kampf
"The general pacifistic paralyzation of the national instinct of self-preservation, introduced into the circles of the so-called ‘intelligentsia’ by Freemasonry, is transmitted to the great masses, but above all to the bourgeoisie, by the activity of the great press, which today is always Jewish."
