List of contributors to Marxist theory

This is a list of prominent figures who contributed to

communist political party

or other organisation.

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Name Place of birth Place of death Nationality Life Tendency

Victor Adler Prague, Austria-Hungary Vienna, Austria Austrian 1852–1918
Austro-Marxism

Theodor W. Adorno^[1]
Germany

Visp, Valais, Switzerland
German 1903–1969 Frankfurt School, Western Marxism

Louis Althusser
Birmendreïs, French Algeria
Paris, France French 1918–1990 Western Marxism, Structural Marxism, Leninism

Samir Amin Cairo, Egypt Paris, France Egyptian and French 1931–2018
Third Worldism, Maoism, World-systems theory

Otto Bauer Vienna, Austria-Hungary Paris, France Austrian 1881–1938
Austro-Marxism

Walter Benjamin^[2]^[3]^[4] Berlin, German Empire Portbou, Catalonia, Spain German 1892–1940
Marxist hermeneutics

Franco "Bifo" Berardi Bologna, Italy Still Living Italian 1949– Autonomism

Eduard Bernstein Schöneberg, German Confederation Berlin, Germany German 1850–1932
Marxist revisionism

Caio Prado Júnior São Paulo, Brazil
Brazil
Brazilian 1907–1990 Marxism

Ernst Bloch^[5]
Ludwigshafen, Germany Tübingen, West Germany German 1885–1977
Marxist hermeneutics, Marxist humanism

Amadeo Bordiga Ercolano, Kingdom of Italy Formia, Italy Italian 1889–1970 Italian Left communism, Leninism

Bertolt Brecht^[6] Augsburg, German Empire East Berlin, East Germany German 1898–1956 Marxist literary criticism

Nikolai Bukharin Moscow, Russian Empire
Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Russian 1888–1938
Right opposition
(later on)

Jacques Camatte Plan-de-Cuques, Alpes-Maritimes, France Still living French 1935–
Bordigism, Anarcho-primitivism (later on), Communization
(later on)

Cornelius Castoriadis^[7] Constantinople, Ottoman Empire Paris, France Greek and French 1922–1997
Psychoanalytic Marxism, Libertarian socialism

Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya^[8]
Calcutta, British Raj

Calcutta, India
Indian 1918–1993 Marxism

V. Gordon Childe Sydney, Colony of New South Wales Blackheath, New South Wales, Australia Australian 1892–1957 Marxist archaeology

G. A. Cohen Montreal, Quebec, Canada Oxford, England Canadian 1941–2009 Analytical Marxism

James Connolly Cowgate, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, Ireland Irish and Scottish 1868–1916 Marxism, Irish republicanism

Onorato Damen Monte San Pietrangeli, Italy Milan Italian 1893–1979 Italian Left communism

Gilles Dauvé France Still living French 1947– Left communism, Communization

Angela Davis Birmingham, Alabama Still Living American 1944– Marxist feminism

Guy Debord Paris, France Bellevue-la-Montagne, Haute-Loire, France French 1931–1994
Situationism

Daniel De Leon Curaçao
State of New York, United States
American 1852–1914 De Leonism, Syndicalism

Joseph Dietzgen^[9] Blankenberg (now Hennef, German Confederation Chicago, Illinois, United States German 1828–1888 Marxism

Raya Dunayevskaya Yaryshev, Russian Empire (today, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine) Chicago, Illinois, United States American 1910–1987 Marxist humanism

Terry Eagleton Salford, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Still living British 1942– Marxism

Antony Easthope
Kingston-upon-Thames, United Kingdom
Manchester, United Kingdom British 1939–1999
Psychoanalytic Marxism, Marxist literary criticism

Arghiri Emmanuel Patras, Greece Paris, France Greek 1911–2001 Unequal exchange

Friedrich Engels Barmen, Kingdom of Prussia (today Wuppertal, Germany) London, United Kingdom German 1820–1895 Classical Marxism

Frantz Fanon Fort-de-France, Martinique, France Bethesda, Maryland, United States French 1925–1961 Marxist humanism, Pan-Africanism, Decolonization

John Bellamy Foster
Seattle, Washington, United States
Still living American 1953– Marxism

Herman Gorter Wormerveer Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Brussels Dutch 1864–1927 Council communism

Antonio Gramsci
Ales, Sardinia, Italy
Rome, Lazio, Italy Italian 1891–1937 Gramscianism, Western Marxism, Marxist humanism, Neo-Marxism

Ernesto "Che" Guevara^[10]^[11]^[12]
Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina La Higuera, Vallegrande, Bolivia Argentine 1928–1967
Marxism-Leninism, Guevarism

better source needed
] Arequipa, Peru Callao, Peru Peruvian 1934–2021
Gonzalo thought

Ted Grant Germiston, South Africa London, United Kingdom South African and British 1913–2006 Trotskyism

David Harvey Gillingham, Kent, England, United Kingdom Still living British 1935– Marxist geography

Harry Haywood
South Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
American 1898–1985
Marxism-Leninism

Rudolf Hilferding Vienna, Austria-Hungary Paris, France Austrian and German 1877–1941
Austro-Marxism

Max Horkheimer Zuffenhausen (now Stuttgart), Württemberg, German Empire Nuremberg, Bavaria, West Germany German 1895–1973 Frankfurt School, Western Marxism

Ho Chi Minh
Nghệ An Province, French Indochina
Hanoi, North Vietnam Vietnamese 1890–1969
Marxism-Leninism, Ho Chi Minh Thought

Enver Hoxha Ergiri (today
Janina Vilayet, Ottoman Empire
Tirana, People's Socialist Republic of Albania Albanian 1908–1985
Mao Zedong Thought (initially), Hoxhaism

C.L.R. James
Trinidad London, United Kingdom Trinidadian and British 1901–1989 Marxism, Pan-Africanism, Anti-Stalinist left

Fredric Jameson Cleveland, Ohio, United States Still living American 1934–
Marxist hermeneutics

Kojin Karatani^{[citation needed]}
Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Still living Japanese 1941– Marxist literary criticism

Edvard Kardelj^{[citation needed]} Ljubljana, Duchy of Carniola, Austria-Hungary Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Yugoslavian 1910–1979 Titoism

Karl Kautsky Prague, Austria-Hungary Amsterdam, Netherlands Czech, Austrian and German 1854–1938 Orthodox Marxism

İbrahim Kaypakkaya^{[citation needed]} Çorum, Turkey
Turkey
Turkish 1949–1973 Maoism

Kim Il-Sung^{[citation needed}
] Chingjong, Korea
Hyangsan, Korea
Korean 1912–1994
Marxism-Leninism, Juche

Jim Kemmy^{[citation needed]} Limerick, Ireland Limerick, Ireland Irish 1936–1997 Marxism

Alexandra Kollontai^[14]
St Petersburg, Russian Empire

Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Soviet 1872–1952 Marxist feminism, Bolshevism

Karl Korsch Tostedt, German Empire Belmont, Massachusetts, United States German 1886–1961 Western Marxism

Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi Kosben, (now Goa) British Raj
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Indian 1907–1966 Marxism

Yalçın Küçük^{[citation needed]} İskenderun, Hatay, Turkey Still living Turkish 1938– Marxism

Antonio Labriola Cassino, Papal States Rome, Kingdom of Italy Italian 1843–1904 Marxism

Paul Lafargue Santiago de Cuba Draveil, France French 1842–1911 Marxism, Anti-work

Henri Lefebvre^[15] Hagetmau, France Navarrenx, France French 1901–1991
Hegelian Marxism

Vladimir Lenin
Simbirsk, Russian Empire

Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Soviet 1870–1924 Leninism, Bolshevism

Karl Liebknecht Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire Berlin, Weimar Republic German 1871–1919
Spartacism

Domenico Losurdo Sannicandro di Bari, Kingdom of Italy Ancona, Italy Italian 1941–2018 Marxism

Georg Lukács
Budapest, Austria-Hungary
People's Republic of Hungary
Hungarian 1885–1971
Hegelian Marxism, Leninism

Rosa Luxemburg Zamość, Vistula Land, Russian Empire Berlin, Germany Polish and German 1871–1919
Spartacism

Herbert Marcuse Berlin, German Empire Starnberg, West Germany German 1898–1979 Frankfurt School, Western Marxism

José Carlos Mariátegui^[16]^[17] Moquegua, Peru Lima, Peru Peruvian 1894–1930 Marxism, Sorelianism

Karl Marx Trier, Kingdom of Prussia London, United Kingdom Prussian and German 1818–1883 Classical Marxism

Paul Mattick
Pomerania, German Empire (now Poland
) Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States German 1904–1981 Council communism

Andy Merrifield Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom Still living British 1960– "Magical Marxism"

István Mészáros
Budapest, Hungary Margate, England Hungary 1930–2017 Marxism

Antonio Negri Padua, Italy Paris, France Italian 1933–2023 Autonomism

Kwame Nkrumah Nkroful, Gold Coast (now Ghana) Bucharest, Romania Ghanaian 1909–1972
Nkrumahism

Abdullah Öcalan^{[citation needed]}
Ömerli, Şanlıurfa, Turkey
Still living Turkish Kurdish 1948– Democratic confederalism

Sylvia Pankhurst^{[citation needed]} Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom Addis Ababa, Ethiopia British and Ethiopian 1882–1960 Council communism

Anton Pannekoek Vaassen, Netherlands Wageningen, Netherlands Dutch 1873–1960 Council communism

Evgeny Pashukanis Staritsa, Russian Empire Soviet Union Russian 1891–1937 Leninism

Georgi Plekhanov Gudalovka (now Gryazinsky District), Tambov Governorate, Russian Empire Terijoki, Finland Russian 1856–1918 Marxism

Bijan Jazani^{[citation needed]} Tehran, Iran Tehran, Iran Iranian 1938–1975 Marxism

Nicos Poulantzas
Greece
Paris, France Greek 1936–1979 Structural Marxism, Leninism (initially), Democratic socialism (later on)

Isaak Illich Rubin
Dinaburg, Russian Empire

USSR
Soviet Union 1886–1937 Marxism

Jean-Paul Sartre Paris, France Paris, France French 1905–1980 Neo-Marxism, Existentialism

better source needed
] Ilocos Sur, Philippines Utrecht, Netherlands Filipino 1939 - 2022
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism

Alfred Sohn-Rethel Neuilly-sur-Seine, France Bremen, West Germany German 1899–1990 Marxism

Mahdi Amel^{[citation needed]} Harouf, Lebanon Beirut, Lebanon Lebanese 1936–1987 Marxism

Joseph Stalin^[20]^[21] Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire
Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Soviet 1878–1953
Marxism-Leninism, Stalinism

Paul Sweezy New York City, New York, United States
Larchmont, New York (state), United States
American 1910–2004 Neo-Marxism

Josip Broz Tito ^{[dubious – discuss]} Kumrovec, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary
SFR Yugoslavia
Yugoslavian 1892–1980
Marxism-Leninism, Titoism

Leon Trotsky Yelizavetgrad, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire
Distrito Federal, Mexico
Soviet 1879–1940 Leninism, Bolshevism, Trotskyism

Alberto Toscano Italy Still living Italy 1977– Western Marxism

Raymond Williams
Llanfihangel Crucorney, Wales, United Kingdom
Saffron Walden, England, United Kingdom British ( Welsh) 1921–1988 Western Marxism, New Left

Karl August Wittfogel Woltersdorf, Lower Saxony, Province of Hanover, German Empire
State of New York, United States
German and American 1896–1988 Marxism

Mao Zedong
Qing Dynasty

People's Republic of China
Chinese 1893–1976
Marxism-Leninism, Maoism

Slavoj Žižek
SFR Yugoslavia
Still living
Dissolution of Yugoslavia
) 1949–
Psychoanalytic Marxism

See also

List of Marxian economists

References

ISBN 978-0-8032-7305-4
, (3-20): 3.

^ "Walter Benjamin and Critical Theory". Ceasefire Magazine. 2013-04-04. Retrieved 2021-10-12.

^ "Walter Benjamin and the classical Marxist tradition • International Socialism". International Socialism. 2009-01-02. Retrieved 2021-10-12.

^ "Walter Benjamin's Marxist Critique". Caesura. 2021-07-13. Retrieved 2021-10-12.

^ Douglas Kellner and Harry O'Hara, "Utopia and Marxism in Ernst Bloch" New German Critique 9 (Autumn, 1976) 11-34: 11-13.

^ Louis Althusser http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1962/materialist-theatre.htm The ‘Piccolo Teatro’: Bertolazzi and Brecht Notes on a Materialist Theatre 1961

^ Sven Papke, Georg W. Oesterdiekhoff, Schlüsselwerke der Soziologie (in German), VS 2001, page 79

^ E.M.S. Namboodiripad, "Dialectical" Materialism and Dialectical "Materialism", Social Scientist, Vol 10 No 4 (Apr, 1982), pp.52-59

^ Anton Pannekoek: "The Standpoint and Significance of Josef Dietzgen's Philosophical Works" - Introduction to Joseph Dietzgen, The Positive Outcome of Philosophy, Chicago, 1928

^ "Che Guevara and Contemporary Revolutionary Movements", James Petras, Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 25, No. 4, Che Guevara and His Legacy (Jul., 1998), pp. 9-18

^ "Most theories of revolution seem to agree that certain preconditions must be met if a revolutionary situation is to arise. The peculiar contribution of Ernesto Che Guevara to understanding revolutions is that according to him such preconditions can be created." from "Che Guevara on Guerrilla Warfare Doctrine, Practice and Evaluation", Jose A. Moreno, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Apr., 1970), pp. 114-133

^ "...guerrilla warfare is essentially political, and that for this reason the political cannot be counterposed to the military." Regis Debray on Guevara's theory of the "Foco", Revolution in the Revolution, Penguin Books, 1967 link

^ "GONZALO THOUGHT IS THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMUNISTS OF TODAY". www.redsun.org. Retrieved 2021-10-12.

^ Ebert, Teresa L. "Left of Desire" in Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice, 3:1-2 (1999): at §5¶52-53, Online: http://clogic.eserver.org/3-1&2/ebert.html Archived 2010-11-08 at the Wayback Machine last accessed: 20090704.

^ Friedmann, John (1987). Planning in the public domain: from knowledge to action. Princeton.

doi:10.1080/1356932012009006
3

^ Thomas Angotti "The Contributions of Jose Carlos Mariategui to Revolutionary Theory" Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 13, No. 2, Perspectives on Left Politics (Spring, 1986), (33-57): 34-36; 38-42.

^ ""On the Philosophy of Marxism-Leninism-Maosim" by Jose Maria Sison: A Book Review". NDFP. 2021-06-21. Retrieved 2021-10-14.

^ Silverio, Ina Alleco (2011-02-22). "Jose Maria Sison: A Good Man Worth Defending". Bulatlat. Retrieved 2021-10-14.

doi:10.1146/annurev.so.17.080191.000541

^ M.B. Mitin, M.D. Kammari, G.F. Aleksandrovis "The Contribution of J.V. Stalin to Marxism-Leninism" trans 'Inter'[pseud.] in 'The Seventieth Anniversary of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin', published in Izvestia Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seria Istorii i Filosofii, Tom VII, Izdatelstvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 1950, pp. 3-30. http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv4n1/stalin70.htm

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[1] ISBN 978-0-8032-7305-4
, (3-20): 3.

[Ceasefire_Magazine_2013-2] "Walter Benjamin and Critical Theory". Ceasefire Magazine. 2013-04-04. Retrieved 2021-10-12.

[International_Socialism_2009-3] "Walter Benjamin and the classical Marxist tradition • International Socialism". International Socialism. 2009-01-02. Retrieved 2021-10-12.

[Caesura_2021-4] "Walter Benjamin's Marxist Critique". Caesura. 2021-07-13. Retrieved 2021-10-12.

[5] Douglas Kellner and Harry O'Hara, "Utopia and Marxism in Ernst Bloch" New German Critique 9 (Autumn, 1976) 11-34: 11-13.

[6] Louis Althusser http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/althusser/1962/materialist-theatre.htm The ‘Piccolo Teatro’: Bertolazzi and Brecht Notes on a Materialist Theatre 1961

[7] Sven Papke, Georg W. Oesterdiekhoff, Schlüsselwerke der Soziologie (in German), VS 2001, page 79

[8] E.M.S. Namboodiripad, "Dialectical" Materialism and Dialectical "Materialism", Social Scientist, Vol 10 No 4 (Apr, 1982), pp.52-59

[9] Anton Pannekoek: "The Standpoint and Significance of Josef Dietzgen's Philosophical Works" - Introduction to Joseph Dietzgen, The Positive Outcome of Philosophy, Chicago, 1928

[10] "Che Guevara and Contemporary Revolutionary Movements", James Petras, Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 25, No. 4, Che Guevara and His Legacy (Jul., 1998), pp. 9-18

[11] "Most theories of revolution seem to agree that certain preconditions must be met if a revolutionary situation is to arise. The peculiar contribution of Ernesto Che Guevara to understanding revolutions is that according to him such preconditions can be created." from "Che Guevara on Guerrilla Warfare Doctrine, Practice and Evaluation", Jose A. Moreno, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Apr., 1970), pp. 114-133

[12] "...guerrilla warfare is essentially political, and that for this reason the political cannot be counterposed to the military." Regis Debray on Guevara's theory of the "Foco", Revolution in the Revolution, Penguin Books, 1967 link

[13] "GONZALO THOUGHT IS THE THEORETICAL FOUNDATION FOR THE COMMUNISTS OF TODAY". www.redsun.org. Retrieved 2021-10-12.

[14] Ebert, Teresa L. "Left of Desire" in Cultural Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice, 3:1-2 (1999): at §5¶52-53, Online: http://clogic.eserver.org/3-1&2/ebert.html Archived 2010-11-08 at the Wayback Machine last accessed: 20090704.

[15] Friedmann, John (1987). Planning in the public domain: from knowledge to action. Princeton.

[16] :10.1080/1356932012009006
3

[17] Thomas Angotti "The Contributions of Jose Carlos Mariategui to Revolutionary Theory" Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 13, No. 2, Perspectives on Left Politics (Spring, 1986), (33-57): 34-36; 38-42.

[18] ""On the Philosophy of Marxism-Leninism-Maosim" by Jose Maria Sison: A Book Review". NDFP. 2021-06-21. Retrieved 2021-10-14.

[19] Silverio, Ina Alleco (2011-02-22). "Jose Maria Sison: A Good Man Worth Defending". Bulatlat. Retrieved 2021-10-14.

[20] doi:10.1146/annurev.so.17.080191.000541

[21] M.B. Mitin, M.D. Kammari, G.F. Aleksandrovis "The Contribution of J.V. Stalin to Marxism-Leninism" trans 'Inter'[pseud.] in 'The Seventieth Anniversary of Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin', published in Izvestia Akademii Nauk SSSR, Seria Istorii i Filosofii, Tom VII, Izdatelstvo Akademii Nauk SSSR, Moscow, 1950, pp. 3-30. http://www.revolutionarydemocracy.org/rdv4n1/stalin70.htm

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