League of the Just
The League of the Just (German: Bund der Gerechten) or League of Justice was a Christian communist international revolutionary organization. It was founded in 1836 by branching off from its ancestor, the League of Outlaws (Bund der Geächteten), which had formed in Paris in 1834. The League of the Just was largely composed of German emigrant artisans.
League of the Just Bund der Gerechten | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Wilhelm Weitling |
| Founder | Theodore Schuster |
| Founded | 1836 |
| Dissolved | June 1847 |
| Split from | League of Outlaws |
| Merged into | Communist League |
| Headquarters | Paris (before 1839) London (after 1839) |
| Membership | 1,000 |
| Ideology | Christian communism Utopian socialism |
| Political position | Left-wing to far-left |
| Colours | Red |
In 1847, the League of the Just merged with the Communist Correspondence Committee, an organization led by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, creating the Communist League. The new group tasked Marx and Engels with writing a political platform for itself. The resulting document was The Communist Manifesto.
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