German workers' education association
The German Workers' Educational Association ( english German Workers Educational Association ) was one of the members of the League of the Just ( Karl Schapper , Joseph Moll and Wilhelm Weitling u. A.) On February 7 , was established in London in 1840 Arbeiterverein communist orientation. The association, later renamed the Communist Workers' Education Association, was one of the most important associations of emigrated German communists and a forerunner of the League of Communists . It existed until 1919. From June 1858 to April 1859 the association “Die Neue Zeit. Organ der Demokratie “and from May to July 1859 the newspaper Das Volk .
aims
The aim of the “Communist Workers' Education Association” was to establish a communist society. For this purpose, workers should be enlightened about the capitalist social relations in order to awaken or increase the revolutionary potential of the proletariat . Approaches to social reform, such as those pursued by many other workers ' education associations, were rejected by the London workers' education association as concessions to the existing social order. In addition to this educational mission, the association primarily served as an intellectual nucleus and discussion forum for communist pioneers such as Wilhelm Weitling , Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels .
Known members
literature
- Max Nettlau : Marxanalects II. On Marx's and Engels' stay in London, end of 1847 . In: Archives for the History of Socialism and the Labor Movement . Edited by Carl Grünberg, Leipzig 1919, pp. 392–401.
- Carl Grünberg : The London Communist magazine and other documents from the years 1847/48 . Leipzig 1921. (= major works of socialism and social policy NF volume 5)
- Carl Grünberg: Bruno Hildebrand on the communist workers' education association in London. At the same time a contribution to Hildebrand's biography . In: Archives the the history of socialism and the labor movement . Edited by Carl Grünberg, Leipzig 1925
- Gerhard Becker: The 'New Workers' Association' in London 1852. A contribution to the history of the League of Communists . In: Journal of History. Berlin 1966, issue 1.
- Dénes Tibor: Apprenticeship and wandering years of a young Swiss (1845–1848) Jakob Lukas Schabelitz , Duke Charles II of Braunschweig and the Deutsche Londoner Zeitung . In: Swiss History Journal . Basel 1966, issue 1.
- Bert Andréas (Ed.): Founding documents of the League of Communists (June to September 1847) . Hauswedell, Hamburg 1969.
- The League of Communists. Documents and materials 1836–1849 . Vol. 1. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970.
- London Workers' Education Association . In: Subject dictionary of the history of Germany and the German workers' movement . Volume 2. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970, p. 44.
- Alexander Brandenburg: The Communist Workers' Education Association in London. A contribution to the beginnings of the German workers' education movement (1840-47) . In: International Review of social history . Assen, Vol. XXIV, 1979. part 3.
- Jacques Grandjonc; Karl-Ludwig König and Marie-Ange Roy-Jacquemart (eds.): Statutes of the “Communist Workers Education Association” London 1840–1914 . Trier 1979, ( writings from the Karl-Marx-Haus Trier issue 23).