History of Myanmar's labour movement (41/505)

This post presents page 41 of The History of the Myanmar Labour Movement by Thakin Lwin (Bagan Books, 1968).

Vocabulary:

ကွက်ကွက်ကွင်းကွင်း ။ distinctly; clearly; vividly
အရှိန်အဝါ ။ influence
နက်ရှိုင်း ။ deep, steep
စိုင်းပြင်း ။ plan, conspire zealously
ပုန်ကန် ။ rebel against established authority or government
ထကြွ ။ become active, rebel
အကယ် ။ reality

Translation:

As much as [that manifesto caused much terror within the capitalist administration] it was a torchlight clearly pointing the way among the working masses to escape for their freedom.

In this world, after the major political movement called the Chartist Movement of those who wanted to reform the parliamentary system that had emerged in England where capitalism began, although in 1838 the famous union leader William Lovett and in 1834 Tristan from France agitated to establish an International Workers' League they were not successful. Similarly, as a result of the wide influence of the effective education among the working masses of Marx and Engels' Manifesto of the Communist Party, [people] in Brussels in 1848 initially prepared and planned with Marx and Engels' leadership to establish the International Workingman Liberation League. However, that time was coincidentally a time when rebellions were emerging in the countries of middle and eastern Europe and political agitations were emerging in America and so [the plan] could not be carried out.

After that, in England on September 28, 1846 [sic; should be 1864] at the First International, the International Workingmen's Association was formed and all representatives accepted the draft program prepared by Karl Marx himself who later came to be a famous international proletariat leader. English, French, German and Italian workers who comprised that association's main forces and Karl Marx himself, who was a representative of the German workers, attended the congress. In the aforementioned association there were many kinds of political ideologies gathered and participating, such as those who held a purely economic ideology and a libertarian political ideology like the British unions; adherents of social ideology like Switzerland, adherents of cooperative [ownership ideology] like Belgium...