September 15: Christian-Socialist Revolutionary Apocalypticism

Early Socialist William Weitling broke with Marx and Engels, and from the ideas of Fourier and Saint-Simon, to write the Christian-Communist manifesto "Gospel of a Poor Sinner" in 1843. In it he advocated for a revolutionary-messianic Millenarianism, in which social justice was tied to the return of Christ. Tried and imprisoned for blasphemy in Zurich, Weitling emigrated to New York and died in 1871.