Atterdag Wermelin was a Swedish

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 revolutionary socialist, writer and poet, a pioneer of the labor movement, who, together with 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:...

, introduced Marxism

Marxism

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 to Sweden in the 1880s.

Wermelin came into dispute with 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...

 over the issue of political collaboration with the liberals, which the latter favored, and Branting made sure to politically isolate Wermelin. Conditions worsened for Wermelin since he was black-listed

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 and could not find a job. He was eventually forced to emigrate to America in 1887 and settled in Chicago

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. He ended his life by committing suicide in the Chicago River

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