David Wieck

David Wieck
Born(1921-12-13)December 13, 1921
DiedJuly 1, 1997(1997-07-01) (aged 75)
Occupation(s)Writer, philosophy professor
Known forPacifism

David Thoreau Wieck (1921–1997) was an American activist and philosophy professor.

Career

David Thoreau Wieck was born on December 13, 1921.[1] His father, Edward A. Wieck, worked for the Russell Sage Foundation and wrote about miners' associations.[2] David later wrote a biography of his mother, Agnes Burns Wieck.[3]

Wieck began publishing anarchist and antiwar articles in 1938 and was a conscientious objector during World War II.[4] He published A Field of Broken Stones with another conscientious objector, Lowell Naeve, about their time in prison.[2] After the war, Wieck edited Resistance with Paul Goodman.[5] Wieck also edited the anarcho-pacifist journal Liberation.[6] He was a lifelong friend of fellow pacifist activist David Dellinger. Both were imprisoned in the Federal Correctional Institution, Danbury, as conscientious objectors and protested its racial segregationist policies.[7]

He became a philosophy professor at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York.[4]

His translation of Giovanni Baldelli's Social Anarchism sustained Howard Ehrlich's journal Social Anarchism for many years. Wieck had translated the volume from Italian but soon after its printing, the publisher went bankrupt and the books were not sold until they were offered to Wieck a decade later as part of liquidating the publisher's assets. Ehrlich offered the book to encourage subscriptions.[4] Wieck also presented at the Boston 1979 Sacco and Vanzetti conference.[8] He died July 1, 1997.[1]

Selected works

  • A Field of Broken Stones
  • Woman from Spillertown: A Memoir of Agnes Burns Wieck (1992)[3][9]

References

  1. ^ a b Cornell, Andrew (2016). Unruly Equality: U.S. Anarchism in the Twentieth Century. Oakland: University of California Press. p. 283. ISBN 978-0-520-28675-7.
  2. ^ a b Wilson, Edmund (June 1979). American Earthquake. Macmillan. ISBN 9780374515072.
  3. ^ a b Baldassar, Loretta; Gabaccia, Donna R. (2011). Intimacy and Italian Migration: Gender and Domestic Lives in a Mobile World. Fordham Univ Press. ISBN 9780823231843.
  4. ^ a b c Ehrlich, Howard J.; boy, a h s (2013). The Best of Social Anarchism. See Sharp Press. ISBN 978-978-193-752-1.
  5. ^ Goodway, David (2006). Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. p. 322. ISBN 978-1-84631-025-6.
  6. ^ Fernández, Frank (January 2014). Cuban Anarchism: The History of a Movement. See Sharp Press. ISBN 9781937276638.
  7. ^ Elkholy, Sharin N. (April 27, 2012). The Philosophy of the Beats. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 978-0813140582.
  8. ^ Russell, Francis (1986). Sacco & Vanzetti: The Case Resolved. Harper & Row. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-06-015524-7.
  9. ^ Frank, David (1993). "Review of Women from Spillertown: A Memoir of Agnes Burns Wieck". Labour / Le Travail. 31: 415–417. doi:10.2307/25143709. ISSN 0700-3862. JSTOR 25143709.

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