Demokratie als Religion. Wie Wilhelm Weitling von seinen frühsozialistischen Schwestern lernte

This article starts from the premise that the New Testament language of early
socialism is fundamental in understanding how socialist groups conceived of a renewed democratic politics of affect. In particular, it traces how a siblinghood based on the figure of Jesus enabled both the writings of the Saint-Simonist feminists in the 1830’s and later Wilhelm Weitling’s Evangelium des armen Sünders (1845) to develop a concrete micro-politics of familial relations.