Ismail
3rd November 2014, 23:27
I just scanned this with permission from International Publishers (which put it out in 1947.) You can download it here: https://archive.org/details/JosephWeydemeyerPioneerOfAmericanSocialism
To quote the dust jacket: "Engineer and artillery officer, Joseph Weydemeyer fought for democracy in the German Revolution of 1848, but when reaction triumphed he came to America. For fifteen years after his arrival, his activities were intertwined with all the great questions of American life. Journalist, trade union organizer, political leader, colonel in the Northern Army in the war against slavery, and public official in St. Louis prior to his untimely death in 1866, his contribution to American progress won him a permanent place of honor in the history of our country.
This book is the first study of the man whom American historians recognize as the founder of Marxism in the United States."
Also he was a close friend of Marx and Engels, that helped too.
To quote the dust jacket: "Engineer and artillery officer, Joseph Weydemeyer fought for democracy in the German Revolution of 1848, but when reaction triumphed he came to America. For fifteen years after his arrival, his activities were intertwined with all the great questions of American life. Journalist, trade union organizer, political leader, colonel in the Northern Army in the war against slavery, and public official in St. Louis prior to his untimely death in 1866, his contribution to American progress won him a permanent place of honor in the history of our country.
This book is the first study of the man whom American historians recognize as the founder of Marxism in the United States."
Also he was a close friend of Marx and Engels, that helped too.