The Utopian Communist: A Biography of Wilhelm Weitling

30 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST Barmen, and he "stumbled over communists" in other parts of Germany.^25 Also, communist activities were ...

CHAPTER III III. Carrying the Torch to Switzerland SWITZERLAND AT THE close of the 1830's, Switzerland was a center of revo¬ lut ...

32 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST journals advocating everything from mild republicanism to ex­ treme communism circulated in Switzerland ...

IN SWITZERLAND 3? "not to engage in politics," but that decision could have had little effect in view of the fact that radicals ...

34 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST many of the watchmakers in the canton had been affected by com­ munist propaganda. Zurich was known as ...

IN SWITZERLAND 35 his knees. He declined most social invitations because he was too poor and too busy to reciprocate, and he bec ...

36 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST dramatically tossed scissors and needle into Lake Geneva to sym­ bolize his intention to work and die f ...

IN SWITZERLAND 37 a journalist, teacher, and incomparable reader of Goethe, had been a student of Dr. Georg Büchner at Giessen a ...

38 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST Altenburg. His voluminous and fantastic correspondence with Weitling was couched mainly in Biblical all ...

IN SWITZERLAND 39 Indeed, he was sufficiently impressed to quote, in a letter to Ruge, Weitling's lines to the effect that "the ...

40 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST oath and received "the kiss of brotherhood." Henceforth he was addressed with the familiar "du." The or ...

IN SWITZERLAND 41 with a total membership estimated variously from 550 to 1,100. He himself put the number of societies at seven ...

42 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST ity-Labor-Order." With members of such caliber and ambition, Weitling expected to encounter little diff ...

IN SWITZERLAND 4? ling had offered to serve as manager without pay as long as there were no profits and had been rejected, the t ...

44 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST criticism. He read Simon Schmidt, one of his most faithful co­ workers, out of the movement. He believe ...

IN SWITZERLAND 45 London by Moll, the watchmaker, in Geneva by Sandoz, and in La Chaux-de-Fonds by a baker named Zutter. All con ...

46 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST pinches and what is to be done about it.... No one who has not himself been a worker, can judge the con ...

IN SWITZERLAND 47 issues he exposed the caste system of the German intellectuals and the inconsistencies between practical polit ...

48 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST specifically called the readers' attention to such publications as Louis Hessberg's "Versöhnung der Wel ...

IN SWITZERLAND 49 written about the "Guarantees of Harmony"; Weitling added "Liberty," or "Freedom." Some of his friends regrett ...