1. Peter Josef Dietzgen was a German socialist philosopher, Marxist, and journalist.
17 Facts About Joseph Dietzgen
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Joseph Dietzgen was born in Blankenberg in the Rhine Province of Prussia.
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Joseph Dietzgen was the first of five children of father Johann Gottfried Anno Dietzgen and mother Anna Margaretha Luckerath.
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Joseph Dietzgen was, like his father, a tanner by profession, inheriting his uncle's business in Siegburg.
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Early on in his youth, Joseph Dietzgen worked with the famed Forty-Eighters of the 1848 German Revolution.
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Joseph Dietzgen worked with the Tsar of Russia on improvement of the Russian methods.
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Once he was back home, he was visited by Marx and his daughter, who proclaimed that Joseph Dietzgen had become "the Philosopher" of socialism.
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On June 8,1878, Joseph Dietzgen was arrested following the publication of a lecture he gave in Cologne, The Future of the Social Democracy.
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Joseph Dietzgen spent 3 months in prison on remand before his trial was held.
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In 1881 Joseph Dietzgen sent his son Eugene to the United States in order to avoid the Kaiser's upcoming army draft, to safeguard his articles and documents, as well as to secure a family home in the new world.
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Joseph Dietzgen still exists today as a division of Nashua Paper, and its two buildings still stand in Chicago's now trendy Printer's Row and Lincoln Park areas.
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Joseph Dietzgen moved to Chicago two years later, where he became editor at the Arbeiterzeitung.
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Joseph Dietzgen had taken a stroll in Lincoln Park, and was having a political discussion in a "vivacious and excited" manner about the "imminent collapse of capitalist production".
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Joseph Dietzgen is currently buried at the Waldheim Cemetery, in Forest Park, Chicago, near the graves of those executed after the Haymarket Affair.
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In particular, Pannekoek charged that Lenin had completely ignored Joseph Dietzgen's last composed philosophical work and therefore misunderstood the development of Joseph Dietzgen's thought.
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The writings of Joseph Dietzgen are most discussed and attract the most interest in the context of these debates, but have otherwise fallen into obscurity in present-day philosophy.
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Joseph Dietzgen figured on a commemorative postage stamp issued in the German Democratic Republic.