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|[[Communist League]]
 
|[[Communist League]]
 
|Was the first Marxist international organization. It was founded originally as the League of the Just by German workers in Paris in 1834.  
 
|Was the first Marxist international organization. It was founded originally as the League of the Just by German workers in Paris in 1834.  
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|[[Karl Marx]]
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|(1818-1883) German philosopher who, in 1848 with F. Engels, wrote The Communist Manifesto. He predicted that the working class would overthrow the wealthy in a capitalistic society and that private property should be eliminated.
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|[[Friedrich Engels]]
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|(1820-1895) German Philosopher whose father was a very wealthy industrialist. He wrote, with K. Marx, The Communist Manifesto. He supported Marx financially while Marx wrote Das Kapital.
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|[[Robert Owen]]
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|(1771-1858) Welsh industrialist and philosopher, he was a leading supporter of the "Utopian Socialism” and he introduced better working conditions to his own cotton mills in Scotland.
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|[[Jeremy Bentham]]
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|(1748-1832) Was a philosopher and lawyer who believed in individual and economic freedom.
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|[[Charles Fourier]]
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|(1772-1837) In France, was the leader of the utopian socialists.  He also believed that industrialism was a passing phase, and wanted to elevate the status of manual laborers.
 
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|[[St. Helena]]
 
|[[St. Helena]]
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