Karl August Wittfogel (6 September 1896, Woltersdorf – 25 May 1988, New York) was a German-American playwright, historian, and sinologist. Originally a Marxist and an active member of the Communist Party of Germany, after the Second World War Wittfogel was an equally fierce Anticommunist.
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