League of the Just

The League of the Just was a Christian communist international revolutionary organization founded in 1836. In 1847 the LoJ met in London to formulate a political program. They sent a representative to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and got them to join the organization.

The two were tasked with writing the Communist Manifesto. The group quickly adopted it, and changed its name to "[The] Communist League", thus becoming the first Marxist political party.

The stated goal of the League was "the establishment of the Kingdom of God on Earth, based on the ideals of love of one's neighbour, equality and justice." Their motto was "All men are brothers". Wilhelm Weitling was one of the most prominent leaders in the LoJ.

He proclaimed himself as a "social Luther", denounced private property and advocated for violent revolution.
He later wrote "The Poor Sinner's Gospel", a commentary on the New Testament in which he traces communism back to early Christianity.

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Bibliography:

1) https://archive.ph/XkBjs
2) https://archive.ph/Nvrle
3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_League
4) https://t.iss.one/glynnfiles/171
5) https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/12030687

There's a great coincidence between Christianity's objectives and the ones we Communists seek, between the Christian teachings of humility, austerity, selflessness, and loving thy neighbour and what we might call the content of a revolutionary's life and behaviour.

𝐅𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐥 𝐂𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨
Fidel and Religion (1988 Edition)

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Stalin's religiosity was confirmed by his great-great grandson Selim Dzhugashvili who stated to the patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church that "[Stalin] remained a believer until the end of his life, he prayed. In addition, it was Stalin who removed the persecution from the Russian Orthodox Church during the Great Patriotic War." [Source]

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☭ | Josef Stalin prohibited the persecution of the Orthodox Church


Taken from a circular letter of the Central Committee—

"the Central Committee decides [to]: 1) prohibit the closure of churches, prayer rooms... on the grounds of failure to comply with administrative orders on registration, and where such closure has taken place, cancel it immediately;

2) prohibit the liquidation of prayer rooms, buildings, etc. by voting at meetings with the participation of non-believers or outsiders by the group of believers that has entered into an agreement for the room or building;

3) prohibit the liquidation of prayer rooms, buildings, etc. for failure to pay taxes, since such liquidation was not permitted in strict accordance with the 1918 NKJ instruction, paragraph II;..."

𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐞 𝐈. 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐧 §𝟏𝟔/𝐕𝐈𝐈𝐈/𝟐𝟑

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Joseph Stalin fought for the greatness of Russia and actually preserved the Church of Christ from the pogrom carried out by the Trotskyites, most of them hated the Church, Russia, and the Russian people with its history. Stalin preserved Russia, showed what it means to the world. Therefore, as an Orthodox Christian and a Russian patriot, I bow low to Stalin.

𝐒𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐋𝐮𝐤𝐞 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐨𝐧
Crimean Archbishop quoted in Vladimir Lisichkin's Reflections on the Centenary of the October Revolution of 1917.

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The new purpose of this channel to prove that Marxism and by extension Bolshevism aimed to implement the teachings of Jesus despite rejecting religion formally. From a strictly philosophical point of view the mission of Christ was virtually indifferent from that of Stalin's or Lenin's, such will be proven beyond reasonable doubt.

Marxism is. . . unquestionably rooted in the originally Christian ground-plan for the Kingdom of Freedom itself. It is the cold current. . . that brings the statement, relevant to most of our past history, that when ideas and interests meet it is always the ideas that capitulate. Marx said: “To be radical is to grasp things at their roots. But the root of all things is man.” The first letter of John 3:2 also takes man as the root, but rather as being on the way to something than as being a real cause.

𝐄𝐫𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐁𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐡
The infamous Marxist philosopher, in his book 'Atheism in Christianity' which sought to bridge the gap between Leninism and religious Marxism.

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I place Jesus Christ's Sermon on the Mount and his Ten Commandments close to the moral code that builds communism. Side by side. The goal of Soviet power was to try to create the righteous kingdom of heaven on Earth.

𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐙𝐲𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐨𝐯
President of the Russian Communist Party (CPRF) in a radio interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda tabloid, dated 2 Sept. 2021.

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𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐔𝐒𝐒𝐈𝐀𝐍 𝐂𝐎𝐌𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐒𝐓 𝐏𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐘:

“The first communist on the planet was Jesus Christ. Put the sermon on the mount next to the communist manifesto side by side, and you'll just gasp. . . The main slogan of Communism 'He who doesn't work shall not eat' was written by the apostle Paul to the Thessalonians. . .”

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☭ | The first Soviet People's Commissar for Education, Anatoly V. Lunacharsky, noted the revolutionary potential in the gospel of Jesus:

“The communist spirit of early, popular Christianity is not in doubt. But was it revolutionary? Of course it was. In its negation of the cultural world of the time—radical, merciless negation—and in its posing in its place a completely new way of life, it was revolutionary. Any ideology which truly mirrors the mood of the oppressed masses cannot not be revolutionary.”

𝐀.𝐕. 𝐋𝐮𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐤𝐲
First Bolshevik Commissar of Education in his voluminous work 'Religion And Socialism', Saint Petersburg 1911.

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𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐨–𝐁𝐨𝐥𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐢𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐲

By the mid-2nd century, the Christian movement was no longer a local uprising. Like the Bolsheviks, who built a web of cells from Moscow to Siberia, the followers of the Way created a sprawling network across the Roman Empire. Paulus was their Lenin, a strategist who traveled tirelessly, planting communities in Thessalonica, Philippi, and Corinth. [1] [2] [3]

He wrote letters—manifestos, really—dictating doctrine, settling disputes, and rallying the faithful. These epistles, copied by hand and smuggled by couriers, were as vital as the Bolsheviks’ underground newspapers, sparking courage in scattered outposts. In Antioch, Paulus organized with precision. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Each cell had a leader, often a woman like Lydia, a dye merchant who bankrolled the movement. They met in homes, not temples, blending into the city’s rhythm to avoid suspicion. This mirrored the Bolsheviks’ tactic of hiding in plain sight—factory workers by day, conspirators by night. [1] [2] [3]

Christians used codewords: “brother” for ally, “Babylon” for Rome. Their secrecy was born of necessity; a single informer could bring the centurions’ swords. Their recruitment was relentless. Paulus targeted the marginalized—slaves, widows, outcasts—offering them dignity in a world that offered none. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

“In Christ, there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free,” he preached, a message as radical as the Bolsheviks’ call to unite the proletariat. Converts were baptized in secret, their old lives symbolically drowned in river waters, just as Bolshevik recruits swore oaths to the cause, shedding their past for the revolution. [1] [2] [3] [4]

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Our children have gone forth into the world to seek joy, and they have done it for all our sakes and for the sake of Christ's truth. . . There would have been no Lord Jesus if people had not given their lives to bring Him glory.

𝐌𝐚𝐱𝐢𝐦 𝐆𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐲
Bolshevist writer; personal associate of Vladimir Lenin and later Joseph Stalin in Maksim Gor'kii, Mat' (Moscow, 1977), p.146

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• Sell all your possessions and give them to the poor (Matthew 19:21)

• Do not become wealthy like the bourgeois (Mark 10:25)

• Your enemy is the very family which you sprouted from (Matthew 10:36)

• Abolish all private property (Luke 18:22)

• From each according to his ability. . . to each according to his needs (Matthew 25:15; Acts 4:34-35)

• Race is a social construct designed to divide the Proletariat, we must unite as one working class! (Galatians 3:28, Col. 3:11)

• He who does not work neither shall he eat (2 Thessalonians 3:10, later adopted by Lenin)

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Christ had two faces. As a communist, as a teacher of humble wisdom, of living happily for God, with direct faith in the existence of the highest form of goodness, which leads everyone to good deeds, he was a model of meekness and forgiveness. As one who unmasked the existing governmental order, as one who made a spirit of revenge boil up in the masses, he terrified the world and made it more somber. He was a great scold, ready to set the whip in motion, although the threat of it was a sufficiently cruel fantasy.

𝐒𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐭 𝐏𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞'𝐬 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧
Lunacharsky, A: Religiia Isotzializm, vol. 2 pp. 139-140.

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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐦 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫
“He who is not with us is against us” is a phrase that became popular in Soviet Russia in the first years after the October Revolution: attributed to Lenin by Maxim Gorky in his political memoirs (Известия ВЦИК 1924. No. 84., 11 апреля) and was used as a threat or warning to those who take a neutral political position; the expression is often associated with revolutionary propaganda. The original source is considered to be the words of Jesus Christ, reported in the Gospel of Matthew: "He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters" (Matthew 12:30, Luke 11:23).

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