Max Bedacht

Max wisely Sr ( * October 13, 1883; † 4 July 1972) an American communist politician and one of the founders of the predecessor organizations of the U.S. Communist Party and the CPUSA was itself

Life

Born in Germany wisely was the son of a single mother, this was unusual at the time of conservative -oriented empire. In 1905 he appeared for the first time politically when he joined the Social Democratic Party of Switzerland. He did this because he was working as a hairdresser, both in the German Empire as well as in Switzerland. His emigration to the United States followed until 1908, the same year he also joined the Socialist Party of America ( SPA) at. From 1913-1917 wisely worked with as an editor in San Francisco on the German-language newspaper forward, at the same time wisely also participated in German-language publications in Detroit and South Dakota. His end as forward editor was brought about by a stricter law on the regulation of journalistic publications, which moved the setting of the forward by itself. With the issuing of the newspaper The New Era wisely made ​​an attempt to keep his job, but this was short-lived, so that he in San Francisco was soon re- worked as a hairdresser. 1919 left wisely the SPA, since this herself. In the SPA, which divided Communist Labor Party of America ( CLP) and the Communist Party of America ( CPA) Was wisely CLP member and thus joined the group to Alfred Wagenknecht on, with whom he had a letter correspondence and a similar biography. Already 1921, CLP and CPA combined but complete. Also CLP and CPA were driven into illegality. Party could work, the level of knowledge Bedachts lead to a prison sentence. From 1939 wisely eventually became editor of the Fraternal outlook, a monthly newspaper.

Publications

  • Eynikayt fun of fraternaler Arbeter bavegung, 1936, New York.
  • Fern gezunt fun folk, 1940, New York.
  • An Appeal of the German communists: Destroy Hitler! Free Germany, 1942, New York: Workers Library Publishers. ( Together with Alfred Wagenknecht the foreword )
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