In the summer of 1844, Karl Marx, Freidrich Engels, Mikhail Bakunin, and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon were all in Paris, France. Here in Paris, they forged connections and rivalries with each other that would leave great impressions upon the socialists movement.
What if another cholera epidemic or other ill, as was prone to happen in those days, spread through Paris yet again and slew these four thinkers, Socialists, Marxists, Anarchists?