Joseph Weydemeyer; Pioneer of American Socialism
New York: International Publishers, 1947. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. 160 pages. Biographical Sketches. Reference Notes. Index. DJ has some wear, tears, chips and soiling. Karl Obermann (22 September 1905 - 10 July 1987) was a German historian. He became the first director of the Historical Institute of the (East) German Academy of Sciences and Humanities. In Paris during the 1930s Obermann was able to work as a free-lance journalist for various German language newspapers and magazines, reflecting the number of German political exiles living in the city. Karl Obermann belonged to the German Democratic Republic's first generation of Marxist-Leninist historians. The focus of his work was on the history of Germany during the nineteenth century, and within that century he imputed particular importance to the defining events of 1848. He belonged to numerous national and international academic committees, notably of the East German Historical Association. At first a supporter of "true socialism", Weydemeyer became in 1845?1846 a follower of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. He became a member of the League of Communists and from 1849 to 1851 headed its Frankfurt chapter. He visited Marx in Brussels, attending Marx's lectures. He participated in the 1848 Revolution. He was one of the "responsible editors" of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung from 1849 to 1850. He was involved in the writing of the manuscript of The German Ideology. Weydemeyer worked on two socialist periodicals which were the Westphälisches Dampfboot ("Westphalian Steamboat") and the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. In 1851, he emigrated from Germany to the United States and worked there as a journalist. The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, written by Marx, was published in 1852 in Die Revolution, a German-language monthly magazine in New York established by Weydemeyer. Weydemeyer took part in the American Civil War as a lieutenant colonel in the Union Army. Condition: Good / Good.
Keywords: Joseph Weydemeyer, Socialism, Frederick Engels, Karl Marx, American Worker's League, Immigrants, International Workingmen's Association, Republican Party, Wilhelm Weitling, August Willich, Wilhelm Wolff, Slavery, Civil War
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