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'''Karl August Wittfogel''' (6 September 1896 - 25 May 1988).  Wittfogel was a [[German]] [[sociologist]], [[historian]] and [[sinologist]]. In 1918 he joined the Independent Socialists (USPD) and from 1920 he was an active member of the [[German Communist party]] (''KPD''). From 1925 to 1933 he was a member of the marxist [[Institute for Social Research]] at Frankfurt am Main, the ''[[Frankfurt School]]''. From 1934 to 1939 he rejoined the Horkheimer group in New York<ref>Wittfogel was a communist when he and his first wife joined the then marxist Frankfurt Institute, the Max Horkheimer dominated Institute (from 1929) marginalized the hard-core communists. The glory of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno's  philosophical Frankfurter School, which dominated large parts of left-wing Continental Philosophy and can even be traced through [[Deconstruction]]ism was very alien to its early members K. A. Wittfogel, Hendryk Grossmann, Julian Gumperz, Paul Massing or even Pollock. [http://www.riseofthewest.net/thinkers/wittfogel01.htm]</ref>.

'''Karl August Wittfogel''' (6 September 1896 - 25 May 1988).  Wittfogel was a [[German]] [[sociologist]], [[historian]] and [[sinologist]]. In 1918 he joined the Independent Socialists (USPD) and from 1920 he was an active member of the [[German Communist party]] (''KPD''). From 1925 to 1933 he was a member of the marxist [[Institute for Social Research]] at Frankfurt am Main, the ''[[Frankfurt School]]''. From 1934 to 1939 he rejoined the Horkheimer group in New York.<ref>Wittfogel was a communist when he and his first wife joined the then marxist Frankfurt Institute, the Max Horkheimer dominated Institute (from 1929) marginalized the hard-core communists. The glory of Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno's  philosophical Frankfurter School, which dominated large parts of left-wing Continental Philosophy and can even be traced through [[Deconstruction]]ism was very alien to its early members K. A. Wittfogel, Hendryk Grossmann, Julian Gumperz, Paul Massing or even Pollock. [http://www.riseofthewest.net/thinkers/wittfogel01.htm]</ref>

After being interned in a [[concentration camp]] by the [[Nazi]]s (1933), Wittfogel and his second wife Olga Lang moved to [[England]] and then the [[United States]], where he again was part of the Frankfurt School at [[Columbia University]]. With sociologist Olga Lang he visited China twice to conduct sociological fieldwork in the late 1930s.  

After being interned in a [[concentration camp]] by the [[Nazi]]s (1933), Wittfogel and his second wife Olga Lang moved to [[England]] and then the [[United States]], where he again was part of the Frankfurt School at [[Columbia University]]. With sociologist Olga Lang he visited China twice to conduct sociological fieldwork in the late 1930s.