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.

During World War I, Rutgers was a frequent contributor to the Left Wing socialist press in America.

[2] From 1922–1926, he led the construction of an international workers cooperative, the Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Colony in the Kuzbas area of Siberia.

From 1930 to 1938 he worked as a consultant on the examination of large construction projects in as member of the board for foreign specialists at the Rabkrin.

A small collection of Rutgers' papers resides at the International Institute of Social History in Amsterdam.

A plaque on the 1922–1925 home of Rutgers in Kemerovo , noting him as an engineer and founder of the Kuzbass Autonomous Industrial Colony