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Detailed explanation-1: -The second congress was held in Beijing on May 5–6, 2018. It coincided with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx.

Detailed explanation-2: -With revolutionary uprisings engulfing Europe in 1848, Marx left Belgium just before being expelled by that country’s government. He briefly returned to Paris and Germany before settling in London, where he would live for the rest of his life, despite being denied British citizenship.

Detailed explanation-3: -In the 1840s, German philosopher and sociologist Karl Marx, who was living in England after fleeing the authorities in Prussia, where he was considered a political threat, began publishing books in which he outlined his theories for a variety of communism now known as Marxism.

Detailed explanation-4: -During the 20th century, the world’s first constitutionally communist state was in Russia at the end of 1917. In 1922, it joined other former territories of the empire to become the Soviet Union.