List of Marxists
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This article lists notable public figures who identified themselves as Marxists but were also notable other than as political leaders or theoreticians.
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[edit] Activists and journalists
- Angela Davis, US civil rights activist
- Paul Foot, British investigative reporter
- José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, political philosopher, and activist.
- Eamonn McCann, Irish journalist, writer and activist.
- John Pilger, Anglo-Australian journalist and filmaker.
- John Reed, US journalist and author of Ten Days that Shook the World
- Daniel Singer, French journalist and luxemburgist writer
- Derek Wall, Green Party of England and Wales former principal speaker, academic, political economy lecturer, and writer on Eco-socialism and the relationship between Marxism and ecology.
[edit] Architects
- Erno Goldfinger, Anglo-Hungarian architect whose works include Trellick Tower and Willow Road
- Berthold Lubetkin, Anglo-Russian architect whose works include the Highpoint buildings, London Zoo and the masterplan for Peterlee New Town.
- Oscar Niemeyer, Brazillian architect whose works include the principal buildings and masterplan of Brazilia.
[edit] Economists
- Paul Baran, US economist, founder with Paul Sweezy of The Monthly Review
- Ernest Mandel, Trotskyist theorist of "Late Capitalism"
- Paul Mattick US. Also council communist theoretician.
- Evygeny Preobrazhensky, Soviet left-wing economist
- Paul Sweezy US economist, founder with Paul Baran of The Monthly Review
- Shigeto Tsuru Japanese economist
[edit] Historians
- Isaac Deutscher, British biographer of Trotsky and Stalin
- Christopher Hill, British - 17th century England
- Rodney Hilton, British - late medieval England and France
- Eric Hobsbawm, British - 19th/20th British and International History
- T. A. Jackson, British - Ireland
- C. L. R. James, Trinidadian
- Henri Lefebvre, French
- E. P. Thompson, British - 18th Century England
- Michael Parenti, American historian and political scientist
[edit] Philosophers and Sociologists
- Theodor Adorno, German sociologist and musicologist of the Frankfurt School
- Louis Althusser, French Structuralist Marxist
- Étienne Balibar, French Structuralist Marxist
- Walter Benjamin, German cultural and literary critic and philosopher
- Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek/French co-founder of Socialisme ou Barbarie.
- Christopher Caudwell, English philosopher and writer
- Guy Debord, French writer and director and founding member of the Situationist International
- Terry Eagleton, British philosopher and literary critic
- Erich Fromm, German-American Freudian Marxist
- Frank Furedi, British sociologist of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
- Antonio Gramsci, Italian theorist
- Stuart Hall, Jamaican-born cultural theorist and sociologist of the Birmingham School.
- Herbert Marcuse, German-born philosopher and sociologist of the Frankfurt School
- Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer
[edit] Writers, artists and entertainers
- Bertolt Brecht, German dramatist
- Albert Camus, French novelist
- Green Gartside, Welsh musician and songwriter; principal member of Scritti Politti.
- Maxim Gorky, Russian writer
- Herman Gorter, Dutch poet and council communist
- Alasdair Gray, Scottish writer and artist.
- Trevor Griffiths, British dramatist
- Jack Hastings, 16th Earl of Huntingdon, British artist, noted for "The worker of the future upsetting the economic chaos of the present” fresco in the Marx Memorial Library.
- Frida Kahlo, Mexican Painter
- Ken Loach, English social realist film director.
- Ewan McColl, English playwright, songwriter and critic, influential in the British folk revival of the 1950's and 1960's.
- William Morris, British poet, novelist, artist and designer, and leading figure in the Arts and Crafts movement.
- Peter Mullan, Scottish actor
- Corin Redgrave, British actor
- Vanessa Redgrave, British actor
- Robert Tressell, British novelist
- Robert Wyatt, English musician; former member of Soft Machine
- Robert Tressell, British novelist
[edit] See also
- For Communist politicians and party-builders see List of communists
- For theoreticians see List of contributors to Marxist theory
- For miscellaneous others see List of Stalinists and List of Trotskyists
