Axel Danielsson (15 December 1863, Värmland – 30 December 1899, Elsterberg, Germany) was a Swedish socialist agitator, journalist and writer. He was a prominent leader of the early Swedish Social Democratic Party. Danielsson retranslated Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto into Swedish in 1886.

Danielsson faced legal charges of blasphemy for a controversial article published in Hjalmar Branting's Social-Demokraten: 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. During his imprisonment, his paper was managed by his fiancée, Elma Danielsson.

Axel Danielsson

References

External links

August Palm, Axel Danielsson, "The Labor Issue" in Social-Demokraten, September 25, 1885 (at Marxists.org)

Axel Danielsson

1863 births

1899 deaths

Marxist journalists

People convicted of blasphemy

People from Arvika Municipality

Swedish journalists

Swedish Social Democratic Party politicians

19th-century journalists

Male journalists

19th-century male writers

Axel Danielsson