30 THE UTOPIAN COMMUNIST
Barmen, and he "stumbled over communists" in other parts of
Germany.^25 Also, communist activities were brought to light at
a trial held in Frankfurt in 1840. That same year, Weitling ac
cepted a commission to carry the communist gospel of the League
of the Just to the workers of Switzerland.
(^25) Werner Sombart, Der proletarische Sozialismus (Jena, 1924), II, 325.