Republic of the Workers
Republic of Workers was a socialist weekly magazine published by Wilhelm Weitling in the USA between January 15, 1850 and July 21, 1855 . It had the suffix “Centralblatt der Propaganda for the fraternization of workers” .
background
After his break with Karl Marx in 1846 and the failure of the revolution of 1848/1849, the German socialist Wilhelm Weitling went into exile in New York. Here he quickly established connections to other German emigrants, especially workers, and tried to implement the ideas he had failed in Germany in the USA. To this end, Weitling founded the socialist weekly republic of workers in 1850 - Centralblatt der Propaganda for fraternization of workers , with which he tried to organize “various cooperative projects” “in order to realize the self-determination of workers and craftsmen and to avoid competition with other low-cost suppliers to defend ". Weitling published various articles and essays on fundamental early socialist issues and promoted the establishment of a communist society or communist communities, such as the "Communia" colony founded in Iowa in 1851 . In several articles Weitling referred approvingly to Marx and published longer excerpts from the “Communist Manifesto”.
After Weitling's reputation among the German working class community in the United States continued to decline, he stopped all political activities in 1855, including the publication of the “Republic of the Workers”.
Reprint
- The Republic of the Workers. Weekly paper. Central paper for propaganda for the fraternization of the workers . Hrasg. and edited by Wilhelm Weitling. Born 1-6. New York 1850-1855. With newly created tables of contents and a detailed introduction by Gian Mario Bravo: The Republic of Workers and the Polemics against Marx (1850-1855) . Topos-Verlag, Vaduz 1979
literature
Individual evidence
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Hans-Arthur Marsiske: A republic of the workers is possible - the contribution Wilhelm Weitling with the labor movement in the United States of America, 1846-1856. Research reports of the Hamburg Institute for Social Research, Vol. 5, Hamburg 1990, p. 182 ff .
