Wilhelm Weitling
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Wilhelm Weitling (1808–1871) was important early German communist or socialist. Part of the utopian socialism movement, he was respected by Marx, who broke with him in 1846.
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[edit] Life
As a travelling sartorial journeyman/apprentice he came to Paris in 1838 and later to Switzerland. He was arrested in Zürich in 1843 for revolutionary agitation, and extradited to the Kingdom of Prussia. From there he got the chance in 1846 to immigrate to United States (as one of the Forty-Eighters).
[edit] Works
He published several revolutionary works:
- Garantien der Harmonie und Freiheit in 1842
- Die Menschheit. Wie Sie ist und wie sie sein sollte in 1839
[edit] References
Schäfer, Wolf, Die unvertraute Moderne. Historische Umrisse einer anderen Natur und Sozialgeschichte, Frankfurt, 1985, ISBN 3-596-27356-0
