Joseph Dietzgen (December 1828 – 1888) was a socialist philosopher and a Marxist.
Joseph was born in Blankenberg near Siegburg, Germany. He was the first of five children of father Johann Gottfried Anno Dietzgen (1794-1887) and mother Anna Margaretha Lückerath (1808-1881). He was, like his father, a tanner by profession; inheriting his uncle's business in Siegburg. Entirely self-educated, he developed the notion of dialectical materialism indepen...
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Joseph Dietzgen (December 1828 – 1888) was a socialist philosopher and a Marxist.
Joseph was born in Blankenberg near Siegburg, Germany. He was the first of five children of father Johann Gottfried Anno Dietzgen (1794-1887) and mother Anna Margaretha Lückerath (1808-1881). He was, like his father, a tanner by profession; inheriting his uncle's business in Siegburg. Entirely self-educated, he developed the notion of dialectical materialism independently from Marx and Engels as an independent philosopher of socialist theory. His publications had major influences on Vladimir Lenin and the Russian Revolution of 1917, which are rarely commented on today. Ludwig Feuerbach's works had a great influence on his early theories. He had one son, Eugene Dietzgen.
Early on in his youth, Joseph Dietzgen worked with the famed '48ers of the 1848 German Revolution. It was there that he first met Karl Marx and other socialist revolutionaries, as well began his career as a socialist philosopher....
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