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'''Karl August Wittfogel''' (6 September 1896 - 25 May 1988).  Wittfogel was a [[German]] [[sociologist]], [[historian]] and [[sinologist]]. In the 1920s and early 30s, he was an active member of the [[German Communist party]] and, between 1925 and 1933, a member of the [[Frankfurt School]].

'''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]]''. In the 1930s. he joined the Horkheimer group in New York.

[[Deconstruction]]ism, [[critical thinking]], and the [[political correctness]] movement were birthed at the Frankfurt School. Leading figures of the Frankfurt School are [[Theodor Adorno]], [[Max Horkheimer]], Herbert Marcuse, and Wittfogel as well. [http://www.riseofthewest.net/thinkers/wittfogel01.htm]

[[Deconstruction]]ism, [[critical thinking]], and the [[political correctness]] movement were birthed at the Frankfurt School. Leading figures of the Frankfurt School are [[Theodor Adorno]], [[Max Horkheimer]], Herbert Marcuse, and Wittfogel as well. [http://www.riseofthewest.net/thinkers/wittfogel01.htm]

After being interned in a [[concentration camp]] by the [[Nazi]]s (1931–33), he moved to [[England]] and then the [[United States]], where he was part of the Frankfurt Institute at [[Columbia University]]. With his second wife Olga Lang he visited China to conduct sociological fieldwork in the 1920s. Wittfogel became a naturalized US-citizen in 1939. He held academic positions at [[Columbia University]] and at the [[University of Washington]]. In 1940 he married anthropologist Esther Schiff Goldfrank.

After being interned in a [[concentration camp]] by the [[Nazi]]s (1933), he moved to [[England]] and then the [[United States]], where he was part of the Frankfurt Institute at [[Columbia University]]. With his second wife Olga Lang he visited China to conduct sociological fieldwork in the 1920s. Wittfogel became a naturalized US-citizen in 1939. He held academic positions at [[Columbia University]] and at the [[University of Washington]]. In 1940 he married anthropologist Esther Schiff Goldfrank.

    

    

Wittfogel had a point in considering, in the 50s, the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[People's Republic of China]] as the greatest threats to mankind's further development. These two states were the examples he actually had in mind when writing about "Asian despotism", and how it could be vanquished.  

Wittfogel had a point in considering, in the 50s, the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[People's Republic of China]] as the greatest threats to mankind's further development. These two states were the examples he actually had in mind when writing about "Asian despotism", and how it could be vanquished.