Carl Zeth "Zäta" Konstantin Höglund (29 April 1884 – 13 August 1956) was a leading Swedish communist politician, an Anti-Militarist, author, journalist and mayor (finansborgarråd) of Stockholm (1940 - 1950).
Höglund can be credited as the founder of the Swedish Communist movement. Zeth Höglund went on many meetings in Bolshevik Russia and was elected to the Comintern Executive Committee in 1922. In 1926 he returned to the Social Democratic party ...
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Carl Zeth "Zäta" Konstantin Höglund (29 April 1884 – 13 August 1956) was a leading Swedish communist politician, an Anti-Militarist, author, journalist and mayor (finansborgarråd) of Stockholm (1940 - 1950).
Höglund can be credited as the founder of the Swedish Communist movement. Zeth Höglund went on many meetings in Bolshevik Russia and was elected to the Comintern Executive Committee in 1922. In 1926 he returned to the Social Democratic party but still choose to define himself as a communist.
Zeth Höglund grew up in Gothenburg in a lower middle-class family. His father, Carl Höglund, worked as a merchant in leather and later became a shoemaker. Zeth was the youngest of ten children. He was also the only son, and hence had nine big sisters.
His parents were very religious, but they didn’t like the church hierarchy and the way preachers and governments used religion to control people. Zeth Höglund would later become an Atheist.
Early on in High School, Höglund started considering...
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