The Communist Manifesto words, secured a majority for his programme. The League thus unanimously adopted a far more combative resolution than that at the First Congress in June. Marx (especially) and Engels were subsequently commissioned to draw up a manifesto for the League. Upon returning to Brussels, Marx engaged in "ceaseless procrastination", according to his biographer Francis Wheen. Working only intermittently on the manifesto, he spent much of his time delivering lectures on political economy at the German Workers' Education Association, writing articles for the "Deutsche-Brüsseler-Zeitung", and giving a long speech on free trade. Following this, he even spent a week (17–26 January
Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals of the Fascist Intellectuals", among them: Although not at the Conference of Fascist Culture, the dramaturge and novelist Luigi Pirandello publicly supported the "Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals" with a letter. Meanwhile, the support of Neapolitan poet Di Giacomo provoked Gentile's falling out with Benedetto Croce, his intellectual mentor, who afterwards responded to the Fascist Government's proclamation with his "Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals". Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals The Manifesto of Fascist Intellectuals ("Manifesto degli Intellettuali del Fascismo", ), by the actualist philosopher Giovanni Gentile, formally establishes the political and ideologic foundations of Italian Fascism. It justifies the political