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Axel Danielsson (15 December 1863,
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– 30 December 1899,
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) was a
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socialist
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agitator, journalist and writer. He was a prominent leader of the early
Swedish Social Democratic Party
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. Danielsson retranslated
Karl Marx
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The Communist Manifesto
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in 1886.
Danielsson faced legal charges of
blasphemy
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for a controversial article published in
Hjalmar Branting
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Social-Demokraten
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'': the legal process culminated in the conviction of both men. Imprisoned in 1888, Danielsson celebrated the event by composing a pamphlet on the
labour theory of value
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while serving out his sentence.
During his imprisonment, his paper was managed by his fiancée,
Elma Danielsson
Elma Danielsson née Sundquist (1 March 1865, Falun - 8 February 1936, Lomma), was a Swedish journalist and politician (Social Democrat). She was a journalist and temporary editor of the social democratic paper ''Arbetet'' from 1887 onward, and ha ...
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August Palm
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, Axel Danielsson
"The Labor Issue"in ''
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'', September 25, 1885 (at
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1863 births
1899 deaths
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People convicted of blasphemy
People from Arvika Municipality
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