Wilhelm Weitling, the first German communist

Title: Wilhelm Weitling, the first German communist
Creator: Boer, Roland
Relation: MRzine (Monthly Review) Issue 25 October 2010
Relation: http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2010/boer211010.html
Publisher: Monthly Review Foundation
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2010
Description: 'The founder of German Communism' is how Engels describes Wilhelm Weitling. It is not a name that comes immediately to mind when considering the origins of modern communism, but he, a diligent student of the Bible, was an early comrade of Marx and Engels and deserving of greater recognition for his role in the movement. He is usually known through his interactions with Marx and Engels, yet he was a communist before them, founder of the League of the Just (Bund der Gerechten) that Marx and Engels joined and turned into the Communist League and signatory to early statements by the executive of the First International. My own interest lies in the intersection between Weitling's communism and the Bible. So I shall offer a vignette of his life, thought and action, drawing out those elements that were to feed into the full-fledged communist movement.
Subject: Wilhelm Weitling; communism; Bible; revolutionary
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/921740
Identifier: uon:9387
Identifier: ISSN:0027-0520
Language: eng
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