Geneva International Congress of Socialist Students

International Congress of Socialist Students, held December 22–25, 1893, in Geneva, Switzerland. The Congress was attended by 26 representatives of student organizations from Armenia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Italy, Germany, Poland, Romania, Russia, France and Switzerland. Engels was kindly invited to participate in the Congress. For some reason he did not attend, but wrote the letter, To the International Congress of Socialist Students before the Congress. In it, he mentioned: “May your efforts succeed in developing among students the awareness that it is from their ranks that there must emerge intellectual proletariat which will be called on to play a considerable part in the approaching revolution alongside and among their brothers, the manual workers.” The congress mainly discussed the participation of mental workers in the socialist movement, anti-Semitism, anarchism and “state socialism”. The Congress basically reflected the spirit of the resolutions of the Second (Brussels) and Third (Zurich) Congresses of the Second International and recommended the active propagation of socialism among university students.