The Utopian Communist: A Biography of Wilhelm Weitling

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THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST A BIOGRAPHY OF WILHELM WEITLING NINETEENTH- CENTURY REFORMER BY CARL WITTKE LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRE ...

Copyright, 1950, by LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS MADE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ...

PREFACE T HERE were many varieties of radicals, reformers, and intellectuals among the German Forty-eighters who migrated to the ...

vi PREFACE and a severe critic of all institutionalized religion, insisted on morality, ethics, and religion as a basis for soci ...

PREFACE vii remaining papers of his father available to me and answered all my questions about those personal details which are ...

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CONTENTS - I. A Child of War Preface V - II. Paris, the Crucible of Revolution ...

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ILLUSTRATIONS Wilhelm Weitling Frontispiece Facing page The new currency of the social revolution 68 Daguerreotype of Weitling's ...

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CHAPTER I I. A Child of War Preface V T HE old city of Magdeburg, on the banks of the Elbe, has been involved in many of the sig ...

2 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST In 1806 the burghers of the city were once again living in crisis, for in that year the city capitulated ...

A CHILD OF WAR 3 into Magdeburg, as these horsemen of the steppes rode wildly through the streets, singing their tribal songs to ...

4 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST through the streets of Magdeburg, arm in arm with a friend and singing at the top of his voice. Presentl ...

A CHILD OF WAR 5 in the account of his life which he gave before a trial court in Zurich, he testified that he had never been ab ...

6 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST poverty. He knew most of the human miseries from firsthand experience, and they not only made him intros ...

A CHILD OF WAR 7 thorough and conscientious craftsman and a quiet, harmless, and peaceful citizen. He early manifested a strange ...

8 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST states that constituted the disunited Germany of his day. In July, 1830, he arrived in Leipzig, where he ...

A CHILD OF WAR 9 spent some time in Paris and then returned to Vienna for a second visit in January, 1836. This time he did not ...