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9 - Wilhelm Weitling and Early German Socialism

from Early Socialisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2022

By
Bertel Nygaard
Edited by
Marcel van der Linden
Marcel van der Linden
Affiliation:
International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
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Summary

Socialist ideas, practices, and discourses first took shape in the bustling politico-cultural environment of Paris and the British centres of industrial development. But, since these places had the attention of the rest of urban Europe, it did not take long before the question of socialism was hotly debated there too. In many cases, socialism was not only passively received as a set of foreign ideas, but also actively redefined and adapted to particular social contexts or intellectual mores. Germany, though not yet united as a nation in politico-institutional terms, was the main site of such redefinitions and adaptions during the 1830s and 1840s. Soon it became a hub of early socialism in its own right, with German ideas of socialism disseminating in neighbouring regions outside the three dominant nationalities of Europe.

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The Cambridge History of Socialism , pp. 214 - 231
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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Breckman, Warren, Marx, the Young Hegelians, and the Origins of Radical Social Theory: Dethroning the Self (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).Google Scholar
Lattek, Christine, Refugees: German Socialism in Britain, 1840–1860 (London and New York: Routledge, 2006).Google Scholar
Liedman, Sven-Eric, A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx (London: Verso, 2018).Google Scholar
Schmidt, Jürgen, Brüder, Bürger und Genossen. Die deutsche Arbeiterbewegung zwischen Klassenkampf und Bürgergesellschaft 1830–1870 (Bonn: Dietz, 2018).Google Scholar
Seidel-Höppner, Waltraud, Wilhelm Weitling (1808–1871). Eine politische Biographie, 2 vols. (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2014).Google Scholar
Stedman Jones, Gareth, Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion (London: Allen Lane, 2016).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Wittke, Carl, The Utopian Communist: A Biography of Wilhelm Weitling, Nineteenth-Century Reformer (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1950).Google Scholar

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