- Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 - June 5, 2004) was the 40th President of the United States (1981-1989) and the 33rd Governor of California (1967-1975). Reagan was born in Illinois, but moved to Hollywood in the 1930s, where he starred in numerous "B" movies and became President of the Screen Actors Guild. He was a prominent Democrat who supported the New Deal Coalition in the 1940s, and was a leading opponent of Communism in Hollywood. - Karl Heinrich Marx
There are few economists who have become both so reviled, and admired as Marx. Indeed some would even question whether Marx deserves to be called an economist; others would prefer terms like 'bungling and failed revolutionary'. However, there are certainly few economists who read so widely and wrote so much as Marx. Whether you love or loathe Marx, we cannot deny his writings had profound influence on the twentieth century. What Did Marx Believe? - Leon Trotsky
"' (– August 21 1940), born Leon Davidovich Bronstein"', was a Ukrainian-born Jewish Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist. He was an influential politician in the early days of the Soviet Union, first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army and People's Commissar of War. He was also among the first members of the Politburo. - Vladimir Lenin
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (better known by the alias 'Lenin', was a Russian revolutionary, a communist politician, the main leader of the October Revolution, the first head of the Soviet Union, and the primary theorist of Leninism, a variant of Marxism. - Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 - December 26, 1972) was the thirty-third President of the United States (1945-1953); as Vice President, he succeeded to the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt. In domestic affairs, Truman faced challenge after challenge: a tumultuous reconversion of the economy marked by severe shortages, numerous strikes, and the passage of the Taft-Hartley Act over his veto. After confounding all predictions to win re-election in 1948, … - Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels was a German social scientist and philosopher, who developed communist theory alongside his better-known collaborator, Karl Marx, co-authoring "The Communist Manifesto" (1848). Engels also edited the second and third volumes of "Das Kapital" after Marx's death. - Augusto Pinochet
"' The junta members originally planned for the presidency to rotate among the commanders-in-chief of the four military branches. However, Pinochet soon consolidated his control, first retaining sole chairmanship of the military junta, and then proclaiming himself "Supreme Chief of the Nation" (de facto provisional president) on June 27, 1974. He officially changed his title to "President" on December 17. In 1980, by the way of another national referendum, Chile got a new Constitution, … - John Foster Dulles
John Foster Dulles (February 25, 1888 - May 24, 1959) served as U.S. Secretary of State under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959. He was a significant figure in the early Cold War era, advocating an aggressive stance against communism around the world. He advocated support of the French in their war against the Viet Minh in Indochina and famously refused to shake the hand of Zhou Enlai at the Geneva Conference in 1954. - Whittaker Chambers
Jay Vivian (David Whittaker) Chambers was an American writer, editor, Communist party member and spy for the Soviet Union who defected and became an outspoken opponent of communism. He is best known for his testimony about the perjury and espionage of Alger Hiss. - Arthur Koestler
Arthur Koestler (September 5, 1905, Budapest - March 3, 1983, London) was a Hungarian polymath who became a naturalized British subject. He wrote journalism, novels, social philosophy, and books on scientific subjects. In 1931, he joined the Communist Party of Germany, but left the party seven years later, after emigrating to the United Kingdom. By the late 1940s, he was one of the most recognized and outspoken British anti-communists, … - Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum (born 25 July 1964) is a journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author who has written extensively about communism and the development of civil society in Eastern Europe and the USSR / Russia. As of 2006, she is a columnist and member of the editorial board of the "Washington Post". Born in Washington, DC in 1964, she was a 1982 graduate of the Sidwell Friends School. - Woody Guthrie
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie (July 14, 1912-October 3, 1967) was a prolific American folk musician. He described himself in one of his songs as "The Great Historical Bum", a first hand observer and survivor of the economic and environmental hardships of the dust bowl, which shook the great plains states during the great depression. Guthrie's body of music consists of hundreds of songs, ballads and improvised works. - Enver Hoxha
was the leader of Albania from the end of World War II until his death in 1985, as the First Secretary of the Communist Albanian Party of Labour. He was also Prime Minister of Albania from 1944 to 1954 and the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1946 to 1953. Hoxha's rule was characterized by isolation from the rest of Europe and his proclaimed firm adherence to Anti-Revisionism, which has been dubbed "Hoxhaism". - Wilhelm Röpke
Wilhelm Röpke was one of the most important spiritual fathers of the German social market economy. He was born in Schwarmstedt, a village near Hannover. For Röpke (professor of economics, first in Jena, then in Graz, Marburg, Istanbul, Geneva), rights, moral habits ("Sitte"), and social norms and values were decisive elements with which not the market, but the state and central bank continually need to be concerned. - Paul Berman
Paul Berman is an American author and journalist who writes on politics and literature. His articles have been published in The New Republic, The New York Times Book Review and Slate, and he is the author of several books, including "A Tale of Two Utopias" and "Terror and Liberalism." Berman received his undergraduate education from Columbia University, from which he graduated in 1971. He has reported on Nicaragua's civil wars, Mexico's elections, … - Bobby Fischer
Robert James "Bobby" Fischer is a United States-born chess Grandmaster who in 1972 became the only US-born chessplayer to become the official World Chess Champion. In 1974 he officially resigned the title when FIDE, the international chess federation, refused to accept his conditions for a title defense. He is a regular candidate in considerations of the greatest chess player of all time. - Wilhelm Reich
Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian-American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Reich was a respected analyst for much of his life, focusing on character structure, rather than on individual neurotic symptoms. He promoted adolescent sexuality, the availability of contraceptives and abortion, and the importance for women of economic independence. One biographer, Myron Sharaf, writes that Reich's work left a deep impression on influential thinkers such as Alexander Lowen, Fritz Perls, … - John Anderson
John Anderson (1893-1962) was a Scottish born philosopher who occupied the post of Challis Professor of Philosophy at Sydney University in the years 1927-1958. He founded the empirical brand of philosophy known as 'Sydney realism'. His promotion of 'free thought' in all subjects, including politics and morality, was controversial and brought him into constant conflict with the august senate of the university. - Ken MacLeod
Ken MacLeod (born August 2, 1954), an award-winning Scottish science fiction writer, lives near Edinburgh. He graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in zoology and has worked as a computer programmer and written a masters thesis on biomechanics. His novels often explore socialist, communist and anarchist political ideas, most particularly the variants of Trotskyism and anarcho-capitalism or extreme economic libertarianism. - Pablo Neruda
Pablo Neruda was the penname and, later, legal name of the Chilean writer and communist politician Ricardo Eliecer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto. Having his works translated into dozens of languages, Pablo Neruda is considered one of the greatest and most influential poets of the 20th century. Neruda was accomplished in a wide variety of styles, ranging from erotically charged love poems (such as "White Hills"), surrealist poems, historical epics, … - Peter Schweizer
Peter Schweizer (b. 1964) is a conservative author and a research fellow at the Hoover Institute. His book "Do as I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy" received praise from conservative political pundits including Bill O'Reilly. Schweizer's book "Reagan's War" was the basis of the documentary film "In the Face of Evil". The book recounts Ronald Reagan's multi-decade struggle against Communism and credits him with winning the Cold War. - Dalton Trumbo
Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 - September 10, 1976) was an American screenwriter and novelist, and a member of the Hollywood Ten, a group of film professionals who refused to testify before the 1947 House Un-American Activities Committee about alleged communist involvement. Born in Montrose, Colorado, Trumbo attended the University of Colorado for two years. The central fountain at the University was named in his honor in the mid-1990s. - Tony Cliff
Tony Cliff was a Trotskyist revolutionary activist. Born Yigael Gluckstein in a Jewish Zionist family in Palestine, he eventually changed his name to Yg'al (Yg'al: "Will Redeem"; Yigael: "Will Be Redeemed"), although in later years he would become far better known by his pen name Tony Cliff. In the late 1930s and early 1940s he used several pseudonyms in three languages due to the illegal status of the Revolutionary Communist League in which he worked. - Kim Philby
Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby or H.A.R. Philby, (1 January, 1912 – 11 May, 1988) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence, a communist, and spy for the Soviet Union's NKVD and KGB. In 1963, Philby was revealed as a member of the spy ring known as the Cambridge Five, along with Donald Maclean, Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt and John Cairncross. Of the five, Philby is believed to have done the most damage to British and American intelligence, … - Erich Honecker
Erich Honecker was an East German Communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1971 until 1989. After German re-unification, he first fled to the Soviet Union but was extradited by the new Russian government to Germany, where he was imprisoned and tried for high treason and crimes allegedly committed during the Cold War. However, as he was dying of cancer, he was released from prison. He died in exile in Chile about a year and a half later. - Walter Laqueur
Walter Zeev Laqueur is an American historian and political commentator. He was born in Breslau, Germany (modern Wrocław, Poland), to a Jewish family. In 1938 Laqueur left Germany for the British Mandate of Palestine. His parents, who were unable to leave, died in the Holocaust. He lived in Palestine/Israel 1938-53 and since then in the UK and USA. He wrote the foreword to Wilhelm Wulff's book "Zodiac and Swastika". - Wojciech Jaruzelski
Wojciech Witold Jaruzelski (pronounced: Media:Jaruzelski.oggborn July 6, 1923) is a former Communist Polish political and military leader, Prime Minister from 1981 to 1985, head of the Polish Council of State from 1985 to 1989 and President from 1989 to 1990. - Armand Hammer
Armand Hammer (May 21, 1898 - December 10, 1990) was an American industrialist and art collector. Hammer was CEO of the Occidental Petroleum Company, an oil and natural gas exploration and development company. - Thomas Robb
According to http://www.kkk.bz/nationalleaders.htm, Thomas Robb is the national director of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. To clarify where the KKK Headquarters is located, though Robb's address reads Harrison, Arkansas, his home and headquarters are located in Zinc, Arkansas. The E911 system gives everyone in Boone County, Arkansas a Harrison street address. Again, according to his website, Robb is an ordained Baptist minister. - James P. Cannon
James Patrick Cannon (1890-1974) was an American Communist and Trotskyist leader. Cannon was the founding leader of the Socialist Workers Party. Born in Rosedale, Kansas, James P. Cannon was first a member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and then of the Socialist Party of America. He was personally trained by Bill Haywood, a prominent IWW leader. Cannon opposed World War I from an internationalist position and rallied to the Russian Revolution of 1917. - Walter Reuther
Walter Philip Reuther was an American labor union leader, who made the United Automobile Workers a major force not only in the auto industry but also in the Democratic party in the mid 20th century. He was a leading liberal and supporter of the New Deal coalition. Reuther was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, the son of a socialist brewery worker who had immigrated from Germany. In his entire career he was close to his brothers and co-workers Victor Reuther and Roy Reuther. - Cleon Skousen
Willard Cleon Skousen (January 20, 1913 - January 9, 2006) was a conservative author, political commentator, and academic. He also was employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and served as a local police officer. Skousen is best known as author of "The Naked Communist" and the source of the "1963 Communist Goals" list. He later wrote a follow-up, "The Naked Capitalist", … - Stéphane Courtois
Stéphane Courtois is a French historian. He is currently employed as research director (i.e. senior research scientist) at the "Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique" (CNRS), in the "Géode" (group of study and observation of democracy) at University Paris X. He is editor of the journal "Communisme". An outspoken critic of Communism (though once a Maoist himself), he became known worldwide as the editor of "The Black Book of Communism", … - Lev Leviev
Lev Leviev President Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS Israeli entrepreneur and philanthropist, Lev Leviev was born in the then Soviet city of Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1956. His father, Rabbi Avner and his mother Chana Leviev were prominent members of the Bukharian Jewish community. At the age of fifteen in 1971 his family emigrated to Israel. - W. E. B. du Bois
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (pronounced) (February 23, 1868 - August 27, 1963) was an American civil rights activist, leader, Pan-Africanist, sociologist, educator, historian, writer, editor, poet, and scholar. He became a naturalized citizen of Ghana in 1963 at the age of 95. David Levering Lewis, a biographer, wrote, "In the course of his long, turbulent career, … - Lu Xun
Lu Xun or Lu Hsün, pen name of Zhou Shuren (September 25, 1881 - October 19, 1936) is one of the major Chinese writers of the 20th century. Considered the founder of modern "baihua" (白話) literature, Lu Xun was a short story writer, editor, translator, critic and essayist. He was one of the founders of the China League of Left-Wing Writers in Shanghai. - Ernest Gellner
Ernest André Gellner was a philosopher and social anthropologist, cited as one of the world's "most vigorous intellectuals" and a "one-man crusade for critical rationalism," whose first book, "Words and Things" (1958) famously, and uniquely for a philosopher, prompted a leader in "The Times" and a month-long correspondence on its letters page. As the Professor of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics (LSE) for 22 years, … - Bhagat Singh
Bhagat Singh (Urdu-Shahmukhi:) (September 28, 1907-March 23, 1931) was an Indian freedom fighter, considered to be one of the most famous revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement. For this reason, he is often referred to as Shaheed Bhagat Singh (the word "shaheed" means "martyr"). He is also believed by many to be one of the earliest Marxists in India. - Edgar Snow
Edgar Snow (b. 17 July 1905 in Kansas City, Missouri, d. 15 February 1972 in Geneva) was an American journalist known for his books and articles on Communism in China and the Chinese Communist revolution. He is believed to be the first Western journalist to interview Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong, and is best known for "Red Star Over China" (1937) an account of the Chinese Communist movement from its foundation until the late 1930s. - Moses Hess
Moses (Moshe) Hess was a German Jewish philosopher and one of the founders of socialism. Hess was born in Bonn. He adopted the name "Moritz," but subsequently reverted to his birthname "Moses", thus re-claiming his Jewish identity. He was an early proponent of socialism, and a precursor to what would later be called Zionism. His works included "Holy History of Mankind" (1837), "European Triarchy" (1841) and "Rome and Jerusalem" (1862).
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