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The League of the Righteous - The Beginning

The League of the Righteous - The Beginning




 
League of the Just

 
As a result of the breakup occurred in the League of Outlaws, the League of the Righteous was formed in Paris in 1836 under the leadership of Theodor Schuster. In the years following its creation, Schuster was replaced by Wilhelm Weitling who directed from 1837 to 1844, with the employees in the direction of the League: Karl Schapper, Weissenbach George Karl Hoffmann, Henri Bauer (shoemaker), Joseph Moll (watchmaker), Hermann Everberck (writer) and Germann Maurer (teacher).The League of the Righteous was not however restricted to the French capital, expanded in Switzerland and England, receiving in each country, different influences.In France, the League adopted ideas utopian and egalitarian conspiracy of Saint-Simon, Fourier, Babeuf, Blanqui, Cabet and Proudhon. Switzerland dominated the ideas of Weitling. In London, despite the influence of Owen, the League will have contact with a diversity of ideas, expressed in the trade-unions, the Chartist movement and the various conceptions of factory workers and political exiles from several European countries.Therefore, between 1843 and 1846, London more than anywhere else, experienced a ferment of ideas, thoughts causing the rejection of egalitarian, utopian and conspiratorial, broadcast at the time, which led to the assertion of new principles within the League, giving rise to a conception of revolution as a result "of a long process that combined advertising, permanent action and organization" (1), and moving on to admit the need for an evidence base around a social revolution, preparing if "the ground for a rapprochement with the intellectuals who, in diverse ways, sought to develop a critical theory of socialism" (2).Within the League Fair in London, began to mature the idea of ​​its reorganization, the product of a renewed discussion on a new basis of communism.Finally in 1847 a conference be convened for the months of May and June should include the participation of followers of those ideas in several countries.In January of that year, so before the completion of that congress, Joseph Moll on behalf of the "Central Authority of the League of the Righteous," begins his contacts with the revolutionary intelligentsia spread in several countries. time he meets in Brussels Marx and Engels in Paris, which will result in the entry of both the League of the Righteous.It is at this conference held in May-June 1847 in London, which approved the conversion of the League of the Righteous in the Communist League.
_____________(1) Nogueira, Marcus Aurelius. Introduction. In; Marx, Karl, Engels, Friedrich. "Manifesto of the Communist Party." Petropolis: Voices, 1988.

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