Axel Danielsson was a Swedish

Sweden

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 socialist

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 agitator, journalist and writer, born in Värmland

Värmland

' is a historical province or landskap in the west of middle Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Dalsland, Dalarna, Västmanland and Närke. It is also bounded by Norway in the west. Latin name versions are Vermelandia and Wermelandia. Although the province's land originally was Götaland, the...

. He was a prominent leader of the early Swedish Social Democratic Party

Swedish Social Democratic Party

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. Danielsson retranslated Karl Marx

Karl Marx

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's Communist Manifesto

The Communist Manifesto

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into Swedish

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 in 1886.

Danielsson faced legal charges of blasphemy

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 for a controversial article published in Hjalmar Branting

Hjalmar Branting

was a Swedish politician. He was the leader of the Swedish Social Democratic Party , and Prime Minister during three separate periods . When Branting came to power in 1920, he was the first Social Democratic Prime Minister of Sweden...

's Social-Demokraten

Social-Demokraten

Social-Demokraten was a Swedish daily Social Democratic newspaper, belonging to the Swedish Social Democratic Party. The paper was founded in 1885 by August Palm, and existed up to 1945, when it changed name to Morgon-Tidningen...

: 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 while serving out his sentence.

Danielsson died in Germany

Germany

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.

External links

• August Palm
  August Palm
  August Teodor Palm was a Swedish socialist activist and a key person in introducing the social democratic labour movement in Sweden, leading it in a reformist direction.-Early activism:...
  
  , Axel Danielsson, "The Labor Issue" in Social-Demokraten
  Social-Demokraten
  Social-Demokraten was a Swedish daily Social Democratic newspaper, belonging to the Swedish Social Democratic Party. The paper was founded in 1885 by August Palm, and existed up to 1945, when it changed name to Morgon-Tidningen...
  
  , September 25, 1885 (at Marxists.org)