1. Joseph Arnold Weydemeyer was a military officer in the Kingdom of Prussia and the United States as well as a journalist, politician and Marxist revolutionary.
26 Facts About Joseph Weydemeyer
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Joseph Weydemeyer visited Marx in Brussels, staying there for a time to attend Marx's lectures.
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Joseph Weydemeyer was one of the "responsible editors" of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung from 1849 to 1850.
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Joseph Weydemeyer acted on Marx's behalf in the failed publication of the manuscript of The German Ideology.
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Joseph Weydemeyer worked on two socialist periodicals which were the Westphalisches Dampfboot and the Neue Rheinische Zeitung.
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Joseph Weydemeyer took part in the American Civil War as a lieutenant colonel in the Union Army.
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Joseph Weydemeyer began to read the bourgeois radical and socialist newspaper Rheinische Zeitung, the Cologne paper Marx became editor and which was suppressed by Prussian censorship in 1843.
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Joseph Weydemeyer went frequently to Cologne and took part to discussions of social problems with the journalists of the Rheinische Zeitung.
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Joseph Weydemeyer then became assistant editor of the Trierische Zeitung, a paper which advocated the Phalansteries of Charles Fourier and the True Socialism of Karl Gruen.
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Joseph Weydemeyer remained in the country for half a year, underground.
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Joseph Weydemeyer pointed out the dominance of the liberal bourgeois-nationalist ideology on the people, among them Gottfried Kinkel and Lajos Kossuth.
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In spring 1852, Joseph Weydemeyer brought out Marx's Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte as a final number of Die Revolution, after arranging for serial publication of Engels The Peasant War in Germany in the New York Turn-Zeitung between January 1852 and February 1853.
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Joseph Weydemeyer began to write for the Turn-Zeitung about different political issues, as the American aversion of the proletarian dictatorship, the calling of liberal American groups for free election in Europe and their silence about the conditions of the workers, the political immaturity of forty-eighters who raised money in the United States to foment revolution in Europe.
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Joseph Weydemeyer saw the shift from an agricultural dominance over the industrial to an industrial dominance over the former.
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Joseph Weydemeyer stands for organizations of the workers on a large scale political as well as economical, and urged the workers to adopt internationalism.
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When in the context of the Know-Nothing agitation, in 1855, the members began forming a secret military organization to defend themselves against nativist attacks, Joseph Weydemeyer withdrew from the League.
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Joseph Weydemeyer devoted himself to study the American Economy and to writing and lecturing of Marxists ideas.
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Joseph Weydemeyer's stand for the Republicans was consistent with the influence of the most prominent labor radicals at the time, as Wilhelm Weitling.
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Shortly after dropping the American Workers League, Joseph Weydemeyer left New York and settled down in the Midwest, where he lived for four years, first in Milwaukee and then in Chicago, where he worked as a journalist and as a surveyor.
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Joseph Weydemeyer tried to establish in Chicago, another independent German labor paper, and contributed to the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, a famous German Republican daily of the Midwest.
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Joseph Weydemeyer took part in the Deutsches Haus conference of German-American societies in Chicago in May 1860 to influence the Republican convention's platform and candidates.
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Joseph Weydemeyer superintended the erection of ten forts around St Louis.
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Politically active in Missouri, Joseph Weydemeyer was facing two main issues: the extension of emancipation to Missouri and the prevention of a split between the Lincoln and Fremont faction of the Republican Party.
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In September 1864, Joseph Weydemeyer joined the army as colonel of the 41st Missouri Volunteer Infantry charged with the defense of St Louis.
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Joseph Weydemeyer won the election as county auditor, holding his office from January 1,1866 until his death.
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Joseph Weydemeyer worked for strong tax laws and collecting unpaid taxes of men who used the war to become rich.