League of the Just
Marx had come to Paris to work with Arnold Ruge, another revolutionary from Germany, on the "Deutsch–Französische Jahrbücher", while Engels had come especially to meet Marx. There, he showed him his work, "The Condition of the Working Class in England". Marx wrote for the "Vorwärts" revolutionary newspaper, established and run by the secret society called League of the Just, founded by German workers in Paris in 1836 and inspired by the revolutionary Gracchus Babeuf and his ideal of social equality. The League of the Just was a splinter group from the League of the Just ("Bund der Geaechteten") created in Paris two years before by Theodor Schuster, Wilhelm Weitling and others German emigrants, mostly journeymen. Schusterr was inspired by the works of Philippe Buonarroti. The latter league had a pyramidal structure inspired by the secret society of the Republican "Carbonari", and shared ideas with Saint-Simon and Charles Fourier's utopian socialism. Their aim was to establish a "Social Republic" in the German states which would respect "freedom", "equality" and "civic virtue".