The Utopian Communist: A Biography of Wilhelm Weitling

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WEITLING'S "SYSTEM" 69 pia. It is a fact also that there were several purges in the Arbeiter¬ bund which Weitling created in the ...

CHAPTER V V. A Martyr's Crown I N Das junge Deutschland in der Schweiz, his volume on Young Germany in Switzerland, Wilhelm Marr ...

A MARTYR'S CROWN 71 of the most radical reformers. Seiler reported many conversations on this subject with Weitling and testifie ...

72 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST ment. Weitling belongs in this same tradition of chiliastic sec­ tarianism.^1 The result of his long re ...

A MARTYR'S CROWN 73 regularly at the Gasthaus zum Pfauen. His room and the printing establishment were raided by the police; a p ...

74 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST or in heaven, but to strive for a good society on earth, anchored in love. "God and Love are the eterna ...

A MARTYR'S CROWN 75 outwit the Pharisees. After the fashion of rationalist attacks on the Bible, the Evangelium directed attenti ...

76 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST all the brethren."^3 He restated his views on crime and punishment and supported them with Biblical pro ...

A MARTYR'S CROWN 77 passion for those in sorrow, and pity for criminals who had fallen victim to passion or the maladjustments o ...

78 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST Evangelium. In the same year a humble clerk in a Pennsylvania town wrote the author to ask for an Engli ...

A MARTYR'S CROWN 79 power of Fröbel, who had shielded some communist extremists. There also is evidence that the pietists and or ...

80 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST the assault on property rights since the days of Babeuf; analyzed Weitling's theories as revealed in th ...

A MARTYR'S CROWN 81 after and watched more closely by the police; and that a special commission be created to study the problem ...

82 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST of the faith which sustained them. He quoted again from the Bible to prove that his system was entirely ...

A MARTYR'S CROWN 83 last time before the court. He was not unmindful of his oppor­ tunity to play a dramatic role, and he closed ...

84 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST tention until well after the days of trial were over, but he preserved the files of the Communist Chron ...

A MARTYR'S CROWN 85 348 days which Weitling had spent in prison (from June 8, 1843, to May 21, 1844), was written in London duri ...

86 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST stances to take flight from misery and deprivation into the world of introspection, and to seek refuge ...

A MARTYR'S CROWN 87 increasingly psychopathic, he became convinced that there was a plan in the making to murder him. The doctor ...