Sebald Justinus Rutgers was a Dutch Marxist theoretician and journalist who played an important role in the Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party of America. He was also a construction engineer who
Rutgers in 1902
A plaque on the 1922–1925 home of Rutgers in Kemerovo, noting him as an engineer and founder of the Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Colony
The Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party was an organized faction within the Socialist Party of America in 1919 which served as the core of the dual communist parties which emerged in the fall of
S. J. Rutgers
…Sebald Justinus Rutgers (25 January 1879 – 14 June 1961) was a Dutch Marxist theoretician and journalist who played an important role in the Left Wing Section of the Socialist Party of America. He was also a construction engineer who was active in building industry in the Soviet Union. S. J. Rutgers was born…
Ludwig Lore's magazine The Class Struggle, established in 1917, was an early theoretical journal of the organized Left Wing in the Socialist Party.
John Reed and Ben Gitlow's Left Wing magazine Voice of Labor was later made the labor paper of the Communist Labor Party.