German tailor, inventor, political activist and communist theorist
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William Weitling
Born
(1808-10-05)October 5, 1808
Magdeburg, Kingdom of Westphalia
Died
January 25, 1871(1871-01-25) (aged 62)
New York, New York, United States of America
Nationality
German
Occupation(s)
Tailor Activist
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Wilhelm Christian Weitling (October 5, 1808 – January 25, 1871) was a German tailor, inventor, radical political activist and one of the first theorists of communism. Weitling gained fame in Europe as a social theorist before he emigrated to the United States.
In addition to his extensive political writing, Weitling was a successful inventor of attachments for commercial sewing machines, including devices for double-stitching and the creation of button holes.
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polemic against Feuerbach and Bauer, but also against communists such as WilhelmWeitling and the anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. He resigned from his teaching...
revolution. This was the case, for example, of Félicité de La Mennais and WilhelmWeitling. In 1843, Friedrich Engels rejected the equation "Christianity is communism"...
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