Ludwig Guede Chamberlain
Ludwig Guede Chamberlain (1867-1921) was a socialist writer and agitator, who was a fierce opponent of Marxism in the early 1900s. Chamberlain mentioned that Marxism was like a "hellish plague" which had infected socialism, and which "robbed it of its noble sentiments and undying devotion." Like many critics of Marxism, many claim that the Soviet Union's trajectory proved Ludwig Chamberlain right. He was a French socialist of German heritage, and was very vocal about the politics of Germany. He once famously wrote, "If there were a German ruler as noble as each claims of himself, this noble man would emigrate to a grandiose folk tale." He also said, of older German socialism, "that the word 'utopian' is borrowed from our enemies to denigrate our genuine socialism, that is truly a corruption of benign socialism." He also says, "what you will decry as 'utopian,' this was the foundation of the early socialism, the socialis