The Utopian Communist: A Biography of Wilhelm Weitling

50 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST why the world was out of joint. His descriptions of the sufferings of the poor, in contrast with the ha ...

IN SWITZERLAND 51 capacities of every generation are always in balance with its total desires, or needs," he wrote. But, he adde ...

52 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST no meaning for the propertyless classes. "The worker has no country, for he has no property." Yet men w ...

IN SWITZERLAND 53 for money, he maintained, also was "a real product of labor." Weitling's invective against the power of money ...

54 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST viewed communism as an international movement that could not be confined within narrow national boundar ...

IN SWITZERLAND 55 from the reviews of his book, both favorable and unfavorable, which had appeared in papers such as the Aachene ...

CHAPTER IV IV. Weitling's "System" N o SUBSTANTIAL change occurred in Weitling's prin­ ciples or theories after the publication ...

WEITLING'S "SYSTEM" 57 emotions, or in many other ways, and in this disparity among indi­ viduals he discovered both the source ...

58 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST to serve in the Congress of the Familienbund, and the latter, in turn, created a Senate and a governing ...

WEITLING'S "SYSTEM" 59 from the sun. One milk wagon would replace a hundred milk­ maids with their pails; fences and walls would ...

60 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST pecially difficult tasks of an "honor corps" could complete their term of service in one instead of thr ...

WEITLING'S "SYSTEM" 61 laws of nature to the service of mankind in every field of activity; and mechanics, which included the th ...

62 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST As already suggested, Weitling favored a system which would bring the recognized leaders in the field o ...

WEITLING'S "SYSTEM" 63 expected to devote at least a third of their time to teaching others their special skills. Thus, in a soc ...

64 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST standards of existing society, Weitling expected it to vanish in his new order. He denounced existing p ...

WEITLING'S "SYSTEM" 65 Weitling found that solution in what he called Kommerz¬ stunden. In addition to the tasks required of all ...

66 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST problem he found by stipulating that if too many workers chose to work on the same tasks at any one tim ...

WEITLING'S "SYSTEM" Weitling thought he had anticipated every possible objection to his plan. Unfortunately, it does not seem to ...

68 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST sions to the state; he admitted that they were only the victims of a bad economic system and not inhere ...

THE NEW CURRENCY OF THE SOCIAL REVOLUTION ...