Der Proletarier (1853)

Der Proletarier ('The Proletarian') was a German language socialist weekly newspaper published from Chicago, the United States.[1][2] It began publishing in mid-1853, and was the first German-language socialist organ in the city.[1][2][3] The newspaper was an initiative of a small group of German socialists who had fled to the United States following the defeat of the 1848 revolution.[4][5] Henry Rösch served as the editor of the Der Proletarier.[3][4] J. Karlen was another of the key figures of the newspaper.[2]

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  1. ^ a b William Samuel Solomon; Robert Waterman McChesney (1993). Ruthless Criticism: New Perspectives in U.S. Communication History. U of Minnesota Press. p. 154. ISBN 978-0-8166-2170-5.
  2. ^ a b c Elliott Shore; Ken Fones-Wolf; James Philip Danky (1992). The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of a Left Political Culture, 1850-1940. University of Illinois Press. p. 81. ISBN 978-0-252-01830-5.
  3. ^ a b Archivalische Forschungen Zur Geschichte Der Deutschen Arbeiterbewegung, Vol. 6, Eds. 4. Akademie-Verlag. 1969. p. 2112.
  4. ^ a b Bessie Louise Pierce (2007). A History of Chicago, Volume II: From Town to City 1848-1871. University of Chicago Press. p. 186. ISBN 978-0-226-66840-6.
  5. ^ Randi Storch (1 December 2008). Red Chicago: American Communism at Its Grassroots, 1928-35. University of Illinois Press. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-252-07638-1.


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