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Joseph Dietzgen

Joseph Dickens, German and international worker's movement activist and philosopher. Born in a Tanner's family in Cologne. Worked as a Tanner and gained extensive knowledge through self-study. In his early years, he was influenced by Feuerbach's thought. He participated in the German revolution of 1848. After the failure of the revolution in 1849, he went into exile in the United States. He returned to Germany in 1851. In 1859, he immigrated to the United States for the second time and opened a tannery in Montgomery, Alabama. Later, some friends who opposed slavery were lynched to death and returned to Germany. From 1864 to 1869, he was the foreman of Petersburg tannery. During this period, he wrote his most famous book, the essence of human brain activity, and began to communicate with Marx, and then with Engels. After returning to Germany in 1869, he established the first international jigeburg branch and served as the editor of people's country, the organ of Social Democratic Labor Party. In 1872, he participated in the first International Congress of the Hague, which was praised by Marx as "our philosopher". He immigrated to the United States for the third time in June 1884. In March 1886, he moved from New Jersey to Chicago and began to write for the workers' daily, which was founded by anarchists, and became the editor in chief of the newspaper and two other weekly newspapers. He died in Chicago. After Marx and Engels, he created dialectical materialism independently, which was highly praised by Marx and Engels. In the study of philosophical issues, especially epistemology, he actively fought against vulgar materialism, Neo Kantism, Deism and religious superstition. However, his works failed to get rid of the wrong ideas, which were later used by revisionists and opposed to Marxism Leninism. He also wrote a socialist's roaming in the field of epistemology and the achievements of philosophy.

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