The Utopian Communist: A Biography of Wilhelm Weitling

10 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST object of the attentions of a Habsburg prince. Various versions of this incident have been preserved in ...

CHAPTER II II. Paris, the Crucible of Revolution REVOLUTION I N THE fall of 1835, Weitling had seen Paris for the first time. Bu ...

12 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST houses for the workers, low wages and long hours, and the spread of disease and prostitution were distu ...

CRUCIBLE OF REVOLUTION I? onstrations ruthlessly suppressed by the military. Long before Gerhart Hauptmann thought of making the ...

14 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST doxy. Its author, at a time when the altar supported not only the throne but practically every other in ...

CRUCIBLE OF REVOLUTION 15 Reform Bill of 1832 had given additional political recognition to the British middle class, but the pr ...

16 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST Francois Noel Babeuf, an ardent revolutionist of 1789, had plotted among the soldiers and the workers o ...

CRUCIBLE OF REVOLUTION 17 his best-known disciple, carried Fourierism to Texas; and Brook Farm in Massachusetts and the North Am ...

18 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST tive Christianity. His influence spread even to the United States. Orestes A. Brownson read the Paroles ...

CRUCIBLE OF REVOLUTION 19 such as Weitling. The "independent dignity" of the working classes of Paris impressed Albert Brisbane ...

20 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST organizations and, though frequently founded and directed by exiled students and intellectuals, gave mo ...

CRUCIBLE OF REVOLUTION 21 as long as twelve to fourteen hours a day, and half days on Sunday. His earnings amounted to about 700 ...

22 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST to penetrate the ritual mysteries^17 of all such subversive organiza­ tions. Although Swiss, Scandinavi ...

CRUCIBLE OF REVOLUTION 2? In Paris the young tailor developed rapidly into a militant com­ munist and became one of the most elo ...

24 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST especially in Switzerland and the German states. According to Weitling's account, he won the assignment ...

CRUCIBLE OF REVOLUTION 25 Die Menschheit was Weitling's first attempt to integrate the workers' movement in its broader aspects ...

26 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST loved their neighbors, lived in the happy days of communal prop­ erty, and professed a religion which w ...

CRUCIBLE OF REVOLUTION 27 of the reforms suggested by the men of money and capital and maintained that a device such as a nation ...

28 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST as divine truths which derive from the "father of light" above. Weitling rejected the pacifism of some ...

CRUCIBLE OF REVOLUTION 2 g erations the earth could be converted into a Paradise in which theft, envy, poverty, and murder would ...