The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping Of A Left Political Culture, 1850-1940

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Wilhelm Weitling, one of the many German radicals who fled into exile after 1848, noted in the New York newspaper he founded that "everyone wants to put out a little paper." The 48ers and those who came after them strengthened their immigrant culture with a seemingly endless stream of newspapers, magazines, and calendars. In these Kampfblatter, or newspapers of the struggle, German immigrant journalists preached socialism, organized labor, and free thought. These "little papers" were the forerunners of a press that would remain influential for nearly a century. From the several perspectives of the new labor history, this volume emphasizes the importance of the German-American radical press to an understanding of American
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Wilhelm Weitling, one of the many German radicals who fled into exile after 1848, noted in the New York newspaper he founded that "everyone wants to put out a little paper." The 48ers and those who came after them strengthened their immigrant culture with a seemingly endless stream of newspapers, magazines, and calendars. In these Kampfblatter, or newspapers of the struggle, German immigrant journalists preached socialism, organized labor, and free thought. These "little papers" were the forerunners of a press that would remain influential for nearly a century. From the several perspectives of the new labor history, this volume emphasizes the importance of the German-American radical press to an understanding of American social history in the age of industrialism and illuminates the complexities of the interaction of immigrant radicalism and American culture. Chicago's German-language socialist weekly, Der Vorbote, claimed in 1880 that "the history of the workers' movement in the United States is at the same time the history of the workers' press." Hyperbolic perhaps, but to judge by the energy and resources German-American radicals devoted to their press, many immigrants agreed. The radical movement in the United States met with problems as well as support. Language and culture frequently divided the radicals, and class considerations splintered the German-American community. Cultural radicals like Robert Reitzel and Ludwig Lore ran afoul of rank-and-file taste or party discipline; attempts by the New Yorker Volkszeitung to coach women on proper socialist positions resulted in bitter arguments over the importance of woman suffrage and pacifism. At the same time, social movements that cut across ethnic lines weakened the power of a foreign-language press within the community, as immigrants began to identify with a movement rather than a language. Contributors to this volume explore these and other issues, while correcting the bias in histories of radicalism whi

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  • ISBN-13: 9780252018305
  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Publication date: 4/1/1992
  • Pages: 256

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction 1
I The Radical Editors
A Profile of Editors of the German-American Radical Press, 1850-1910 15
II From 48er Radicalism to a Working-Class Press
Franz Schmidt and the Freie Blatter of St. Louis, 1851-53 31
The 48ers and the Politics of the German Labor Movement in Chicago during the Civil War Era: Community Formation and the Rise of a Labor Press 49
The German Press and Working-Class Politics in Gilded-Age Philadelphia 63
III A Press and a Culture
Arbeiterpresse und Arbeiterbewegung: Chicago's Socialist and Anarchist Press, 1870-1900 81
The Pionier Calendar of New York City: Chronicler of German-American Socialism 108
Women's Pages in the German-American Radical Press, 1900-1914: The Debate on Socialism, Emancipation, and the Suffrage 122
IV Radical Visions
Robert Reitzel, Der Arme Teufel 147
Ludwig Lore and the New Yorker Volkszeitung: The Twilight of the German-American Socialist Press 168
The German-American Labor Press and Its Views of the Political Institutions in the United States 182
Envoi 201
Appendix: List of Editors/Journalists of German-American Radical Papers, 1865-1914 213
Selected Bibliography 221
Notes on Contributors 237
Index 241
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