litt historie

Danish society was in the beginning of the 19th hundreds, a society in great change. The industrial revolution gave us more sufficient factories that invested in machines instead of men. Workers were represented with the choice to either work for almost nothing, or be forced to beg for social aid. The industry, on the other hand, saw their profit decrease as the marked demand plunged, because of the customers lacking ability to buy their products.
This social reconstruction gave birth to Adam Smiths classic liberalism and Karl Marx Marxism.
The young lieutenant Louis Pio, raised in a lower-middle class, with roots in France got his inspiration from the socialistic thoughts spawned from Marx, Smith and Engels. The situation in Paris at the present time combined, left marks in his contribution on the socialistic scene; the magazines Audiatur et altera pars, Union is strength, and later on the socialist.
Pio, with his cousin Brix, and his unemployed friend Geleff, also known as the three pioneers in Danish socialism, implemented their socialistic thoughts by setting up meetings, publishing articles, and forming what is to be called the International Association in Denmark. The pillars of their effort were to inform the workers of their rights, and unite them. Together we are stronger.