Wilhelm Weitling

Wilhelm Weitling (1808-1871), working tailor and Swiss writer. Member of the League of right the, it was one of the representatives of the Utopian socialism, appreciated by Marx which broke with him in 1846.

He publishes in 1838 Humanity such as she is and such as she should be , then in 1842 Garanties harmony and freedom . It defends a society project Socialiste and Communiste. It calls its wishes " a social revolution which would deprive the rich person of the means of growing rich at the expense of the pauvres". It proposes the role of the Prolétariat, of which it does itself left.

Ludwig Feuerbach takes as a starting point its writings but its " reproaches him; atheism religieux". Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels is also influenced by its analyzes.

Its third book, the Gospel of the poor sinner (1843), is worth to him to be imprisoned for " attacks against the religion".

Quotations

"True freedom, the freedom of all, is not possible that after the abolition of the currency and the propriété"
" There will be always revolutions, but they will not be always sanglantes"

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