Axel Danielsson

{{Short description|Swedish politician (1863–1899)}}

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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.{{cite book|last=Steedman|first=Ian|title=Socialism and Marginalism in Economics: 1870-1930|url=https://archive.org/details/socialismmargina00stee|url-access=limited|publisher=Routledge|year=1995|page=[https://archive.org/details/socialismmargina00stee/page/n113 105]|isbn=0-415-13079-4}} During his imprisonment, his paper was managed by his then fiancée and later wife, Elma Danielsson.