Marx abandoned secret-society party membership after dissolving the League in 1852.
Evidence
- In a letter to Ferdinand Freiligrath, Marx wrote: “After the ‘League’ was dissolved in November 1852 on my proposition, I no longer belonged to any Society whether secret or public, nor do I; thus the party in this completely ephemeral sense ceased to exist for me eight years ago … thus I know nothing of the party, in the sense of your letter, since 1852.” Quoted by McLellan, ibid., pp. 313–14. — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 1640