Wilhelm Christian Weitling (October 5, 1808 – January 25, 1871) was a German tailor, inventor, radical political activist and one of the first theorists of communism. Weitling gained fame in Europe as a social theorist before he emigrated to the United States.
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Wilhelm Christian Weitling (October 5, 1808 – January 25, 1871) was a German tailor, inventor, radical political activist and one of the first theorists of communism. Weitling gained fame in Europe as a social theorist before he emigrated to the United States.
Wilhelm Weitling (Foto um 1870–1871) Weitlingweg in Zürich-Wollishofen. Wilhelm Christian Weitling (* 5. Oktober 1808 in Magdeburg; † 25. Januar 1871 in New York City) war ein deutscher Theoretiker des Kommunismus. Er war Frühsozialist mit christlichen Überzeugungen und gilt als erster deutscher Theoretiker des Kommunismus.
Wilhelm Weitling (1808-1871) was a German-born tailor, inventor and editor. In Germany he worked as a journeyman tailor and was a prominent socialist agitator. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1848, he organized an Arbeiterbund or "Workingmen's League" for skilled craftsmen and established a community in Iowa based on his socio-economic theories.
Wilhelm Weitling: Founder: Theodore Schuster: Founded: 1836: Dissolved: June 1847: Split from: League of Outlaws: Succeeded by: Communist League: Headquarters: Paris (before 1839) London (after 1839) Membership: 1,000: Ideology: Christian communism Utopian socialism: Political position: Left-wing to far-left: Colours Red
Wilhelm Christian Weitling (October 5, 1808 – January 25, 1871) was a German tailor, inventor, radical political activist and one of the first theorists of communism. Weitling gained fame in Europe as a social theorist before he emigrated to the United States. Part of a series on.
the tailor Wilhelm Weitling, who was born in 1808, the illegiti-mate son of a French officer of the Napoleonic army of occupation and a working girl of Magdeburg. Weitling's relative historical importance was that, along with Auguste Blanqui, he represented the most active element of the revolutionary tendency of the continental proletariat
Wilhelm Weitling and Early German Socialism; By Bertel Nygaard; Edited by Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam; Book: The Cambridge History of Socialism; Online publication: 03 November 2022; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108611022.010
Wilhelm Weitling considered the existing Sittlichkeit as something oppressive, which needed to be destroyed in order to build a better community. Secondly, the concept of Sittlichkeit across our three thinkers is multifaceted in what we might describe as an ‘internal’ manner.
The journal ‘Die junge Generation’ (‘The Young Generation’) edited by Wilhelm Weitling, leading figure and ‘spin doctor’ of the early German labour movement and one of the founding fathers of utopian communism in Germany, had a similar circulation in 1841/42; and Weitling’s programmatic book ‘Die Menschheit wie sie ist und wie ...
Wilhelm Weitling (1808-1871) was a German-born tailor, inventor and editor. In Germany he worked as a journeyman tailor and was a prominent socialist agitator. After emigrating to the U.S. in 1848, he organized an Arbeiterbund or "Workingmen's League" for skilled craftsmen and established a community in Iowa based on his socio-economic theories.