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Ottoi Clin was a Romanian physician, journalist and socialist militant, considered one of the theoreticians of the Romanian workers movement during the early 20th century.

Clin was born in a poor Jewish family in Iai, in northeastern Romania. After finishing high school, he obtained a medical degree from the local university. During his teen years, along with other young students, he frequented the Circle of Social Studies organized by socialists Leon Ghelerter and Max Vexler. The Circle, the main leftwing association in Moldavia at the time, played a major role in shaping future leaders of the Romanian socialist movement, such as Mihail Gheorghiu Bujor and Ilie Moscovici. Beside participating in the Circle, Clin lectured on natural and social sciences for a local adult school. Beginning with 1908, he published regularly in the Viitorul Social magazine, with his articles targeting primarily theoretical and tactical issues. Among his noted contributions of the time are a brief biography on Karl Marx, providing an analysis of the latters contributions to the development of scientific socialism, and a history of the Paris Commune, presented as a proof of th

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