- Che Guevara
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che or just Che was an Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, political figure, and leader of Cuban and internationalist guerrillas. As a young man studying medicine, Guevara traveled rough throughout South America, bringing him into direct contact with the impoverished conditions in which many people lived.
- 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.
- Rosa Luxemburg
Rosa Luxemburg was a Jewish Polish-born Marxist political theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary. She was a theorist of the Social Democratic Party of the Kingdom of Poland, later becoming involved in the German SPD, followed by the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany. She started the journal "Die Rote Fahne" (The Red Flag).
- Howard Zinn
Howard Zinn (born August 24, 1922) is an American historian, political scientist, social critic, activist and playwright, best known as author of the bestseller, "A People's History of the United States". Zinn's philosophy incorporates ideas from Marxism, anarchism, socialism, and social democracy. Since the 1960s, he has been active in the Civil Rights and anti-war movements in the United States.
- Walter Benjamin
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher. He was at times associated with the Frankfurt School of critical theory and was also greatly inspired by the Marxism of Bertolt Brecht and Jewish mysticism as presented by Gershom Scholem. As a sociological and cultural critic, Benjamin combined ideas of historical materialism, German idealism, …
- 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.
- Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud, born Sigismund Schlomo Freud (May 6 1856 - September 23 1939), was a Jewish-Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist who co-founded the psychoanalytic school of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind, especially involving the mechanism of repression; his redefinition of sexual desire as mobile and directed towards a wide variety of objects; and his therapeutic techniques, …
- David Horowitz
The David Horowitz Freedom Center was founded in the 1988 by political activist David Horowitz and his long-time collaborato... ... The David Horowitz Freedom Center was founded in the 1988 by political activist David Horowitz and his long-time collaborato...
- Salvador Allende
Salvador Isabelino Allende Gossens (July 26, 1908 – September 11, 1973) was President of Chile from November 1970 until his death, reportedly by suicide, during the coup d'état of September 11, 1973. Allende's career in Chilean government spanned nearly forty years. As a Socialist Party and Marxist politician, he became a senator, deputy, cabinet minister and after failing in the 1952, 1958, …
- Ernest Mandel
Ernest Ezra Mandel, also known by various pseudonyms such as Ernest Germain, Pierre Gousset, Henri Vallin, Walter etc. (April 5, 1923 - July 20, 1995) was a Trotskyist theorist. Born in Frankfurt, Mandel was recruited to the Belgian section of the international Trotskyist movement, the Fourth International, in his youth in Antwerp. His parents, Henri and Rosa Mandel, were Jewish emigres from Poland, …
- Antonio Negri
Antonio "Toni" Negri (born August 1, 1933) is an Italian Marxist political philosopher. Negri is perhaps best-known for his co-authorship of "Empire" and his work on Spinoza. Born in Padua, he became a political philosophy professor in his hometown university. Negri founded "Potere Operaio" (Worker Power) group in 1969 and was a leading member of the "Autonomia Operaia".
- Eric Hobsbawm
Eric John Earnest Hobsbawm CH (born June 9, 1917 in Alexandria, Egypt) is a British Marxist historian and author. Hobsbawm was a long-standing member of the now defunct Communist Party of Great Britain and the associated Communist Party Historians Group. He is president of Birkbeck, University of London. One of Hobsbawm's interests is the development of traditions. His work is a study of their construction in the context of the nation state.
- Ernst Bloch
Ernst Simon Bloch (July 8, 1885 - August 4, 1977) was a German Marxist philosopher and atheist theologian. He was born in Ludwigshafen, the son of an assimilated Jewish railway-employee. After studying philosophy, he married Else von Stritzky, daughter of a Baltic brewer in 1913, who died in 1921. His second marriage with Linda Oppenheimer lasted only a few years. His third wife was Karola Bloch, a Polish architect, whom he married 1934 in Vienna.
- Ernesto Laclau
Ernesto Laclau (b.1935 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentinian political theorist often described as post-Marxist. He is a professor at the University of Essex where he holds a chair in Political Theory and was for many years director of the doctoral Programme in Ideology and Discourse Analysis. He has lectured extensively in many universities in North America, Latin America, Western Europe, Australia and South Africa.
- Henri Lefebvre
Henri Lefebvre (16 June 1901-29 June 1991) was a French Marxist sociologist, intellectual and philosopher.
- Chantal Mouffe
Chantal Mouffe (born 1943 in Charleroi, Belgium) is a Belgian political theorist. She holds a professorship at the University of Westminster in England. She is best known as co-author of "Hegemony and Socialist Strategy" with Ernesto Laclau.
- Derek Wall
Derek Wall PhD is a British politician and current Principal Speaker of the Green Party of England and Wales as well as an environmental and social activist, academic and writer whose work concentrates on eco-socialism and the relationship between Marxism and the environment. Wall is also a Zen-practitioner and keeps a regular blog. =Academic Career= Wall teaches political economy at Goldsmiths College, University of London, …
- Leo Panitch
Leo Panitch (born May 3, 1945 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is professor of political science at York University, in Toronto, Ontario. He is a prominent exponent of Marxism who sees his own work as theoretically innovative within that tradition, because he maintains that the dominance of the United States in the early years of the twenty-first century can't be understood using theories of imperialism that are themselves a century old.
- Franz Mehring
Franz Erdmann Mehring, was a German publicist, politician and historian. He worked for various daily and weekly newspapers and over many years wrote lead articles for the weekly magazine "Neue Zeit". In 1868 he moved to Berlin to study, and worked in the editorial office of the "Die Zukunft" newspaper. From 1871–1874, Mehring worked for the Correspondence Office in Oldenburg, writing reports on sessions of the "Reichstag" and the local parliament.
- Cornelius Castoriadis
Cornelius Castoriadis (March 11 1922-December 26 1997) was a Greek-French philosopher, economist and psychoanalyst. Author of the The Imaginary Institution of the Society, co-founder of the "Socialisme ou Barbarie" group, director of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales since 1979 and 'philosopher of autonomy'.
- Paul Lafargue
Paul Lafargue was a French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, literary critic, political writer and activist; he was Karl Marx's son-in-law, having married his second daughter Laura. His best known work is "The Right to Be Lazy". Born in Santiago de Cuba of a Franco-Caribbean family, Lafargue spent most of his life in France, with periods in England and Spain. At the age of 69, he and Laura died together in a suicide pact.
- Harry Cleaver
Harry Cleaver is best known as the author of "Reading Capital Politically", an autonomist reading of Karl Marx's "Capital". Cleaver teaches on Marxism and Marxist economics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he was hired as a result of student agitation in the 1970s. Harry Cleaver is currently active in the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico. Harry Cleaver is also a contributor on the aut-op-sy email list.
- 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.
- Martin Jay
Martin Jay (born 1944) is the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a renowned Intellectual Historian and his research has revolved around Marxism, the Critical Theory of the Frankfurt School, and other moments and concepts in German History. He received his B.A from Union College in 1965. In 1971, he completed his Ph.D. in History at Harvard under the tutelage of H. Stuart Hughes.
- Lenni Brenner
Lenni Brenner (born 1937) is an American Marxist writer. In the 1960s, Brenner was a prominent civil rights activist and a prominent opponent of the Vietnam War. Brenner was born into an Orthodox Jewish family. He became an atheist at age 10 and a Marxist at age 15. Brenner's involvement with the American Civil Rights Movement began when he met James Farmer of the Congress of Racial Equality, later the organizer of the "freedom rides" of the early 1960s.
- George Novack
George Novack (August 5, 1905, Boston, Massachusetts - July 30, 1992, New York City) was an American Communist politician and Marxist theoretician. He attended Harvard University, earning a B.A. in 1926, and an M.A. in 1927. He was on a successful track in the publishing business, when the beginning of the Great Depression radicalized him.
- Frank Furedi
Frank Furedi Frank Furedi is a professor of sociology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, and has written widely on history, sociology and politics. He is author of Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age , The Culture of Fear: Risk-Taking and the Morality of Low Expectation and Paranoid Parenting: Why Ignoring the Experts May Be Best for Your Child .
- Karl Mannheim
Karl Mannheim (Mannheim Károly the original writting of his name March 27, 1893, Budapest – January 9, 1947, London) was a Jewish Hungarian-born sociologist, influential in the first half of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of classical sociology. Mannheim rates as a founder of the sociology of knowledge. He studied in Budapest, Berlin—in 1914 he attended lectures by Georg Simmel—, Paris and Heidelberg.
- Harry Magdoff
Henry Samuel Magdoff, was a prominent American socialist commentator. He held several administrative positions in government during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt and later became co-editor of the Marxist publication, "Monthly Review".
- Daniel de Leon
Daniel De Leon was a Curaçao-born American socialist and Syndicalism-influenced trade unionist of Jewish origin. He was educated in Germany and the Netherlands and arrived in the United States in 1874. De Leon settled in New York City, studying at Columbia University. He became a committed socialist during the 1886 Mayoral campaign of Henry George and in 1890 joined the Socialist Labor Party (SLP), becoming the editor of its newspaper, "The People".
- Amadeo Bordiga
Amadeo Bordiga (June 13, 1889 - July 23, 1970) was an Italian Marxist, a contributor to Communist theory, the founder of the Communist Party of Italy, a leader of the Communist International and, after World War II, leading figure of the International Communist Party.
- David Roediger
David R. Roediger (July 13, 1952) is a professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). His research interests include the construction of racial identity, class structures, and the history of American radicalism. He writes from an admittedly Marxist theoretical framework.
- Georgi Plekhanov
Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov (December 11, 1856 - May 30, 1918; "Old Style:" November 29 1856 - May 17 1918) was a Russian revolutionary and a Marxist theoretician. He was a founder of the Social-Democratic movement in Russia. Plekhanov contributed many ideas to Marxism in the area of philosophy and the roles of art and religion in society. In his political activities he adopted the nom de guerre of Volgin, after the Volga River.
- Rudolf Hilferding
Rudolf Hilferding (10 August 1877, Vienna -February 11, 1941, Paris) was an Austrian Marxist economist and a popularizer of the "economic" reading of Karl Marx or Communism.
- Zhu De
Zhu De began to read about Marxism and Leninism in Shanghai. In the mid-1920s, he went to Europe, studying at Göttingen University in Germany from 1922 to 1925 at which point he was expelled from the country by the government for his role in a number of student protests. Around this time, he joined the Communist Party. Zhou Enlai was one of his sponsors. In July 1925, he traveled to the Soviet Union to study military affairs.
- Li Dazhao
Li Dazhao (October 29, 1888 - April 28, 1927) was a Chinese intellectual who co-founded the Communist Party of China with Chen Duxiu in 1921. Li was born in Leting (a county of Tangshan), Hebei province to a peasant family. From 1913 to 1917 Li studied political economy at Waseda University in Japan before returning to China in 1918. As head librarian at the Peking University Library, …
- Maurice Dobb
Maurice Herbert Dobb (September 3, 1900 - 1976), economist, Lecturer 1924-1959 and Reader 1959-1976 at Cambridge University; Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 1948-1976. Maurice Dobb was an economist who primarily was involved in the interpretation of neoclassical economic theory from a Marxist point of view. His involvement in the original economic calculation debate consisted of critiques of all those capitalist, centrally planned socialist, …
- Alan Wolfe
Alan Wolfe is a political scientist and is currently on the faculty of Boston College and serves as director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Future of American Democracy Foundation, a nonprofit, nonpartisan foundation in partnership with Yale University Press and the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, …
- Michael Burawoy
Michael Burawoy is a Marxist sociologist, best known as author of "Manufacturing Consent" (a famous study on work and organizations) and as a leading proponent of public sociology. Burawoy was also president of the American Sociological Association in 2004 and is presently a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 2006-2010, he is vice-president for the Committee of National Associations of the International Sociological Association.
- Terrell Carver
Terrell Foster Carver is a Professor of Political Theory. He was born on 4 September 1946 in Boise, Idaho, USA.