By Kristofer Petersen-Overton and Tristan Husby (forthcoming!)

A Reacting To the Past, Flashpoints Game for high school or college-level instruction. This game is set in 1847 at the Red Lion Pub in Soho, London. It brings together real people of the time to recreate the two secret congresses of the League of the Just, the organization that commissioned Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels to write what would become The Communist Manifesto. Counterfactually, the game assumes that Marx and Engels have already produced a draft and the meeting will debate whether or not the League wishes to adopt, revise, or reject the Manifesto. The game gives students the opportunity to play prominent figures, including Marx and Engels themselves, as well as other lesser known figures in the history of 19th century socialism (e.g. Wilhelm Weitling, Moses Hess, Harriet Law). The questions and compromises that arise in the game highlight real historical debates and questions central to the emergent socialist and labor movements.