Name
|
Place of birth
|
Place of death
|
Nationality
|
Life
|
Tendency
|
Victor Adler
|
Prague,
Austria-Hungary
|
Vienna,
Austria
|
Austrian
|
1852–1918
|
Social democracy
|
Theodor W. Adorno
[1]
|
Frankfurt am Main,
Hesse-Nassau Province,
Prussia,
Germany
|
Visp,
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
|
Western Marxism,
Marxist hermeneutics
|
Franco "Bifo" Berardi
|
Bologna,
Italy
|
Still Living
|
Italian
|
1949–
|
Autonomism
|
Eduard Bernstein
|
Schöneberg,
German Confederation
|
Berlin,
Germany
|
German
|
1850–1932
|
Social democracy,
Marxist revisionism
|
Caio Prado Júnior
|
São Paulo,
Brazil
|
São Paulo,
Brazil
|
Brazilian
|
1907–1990
|
Marxism
|
Ernst Bloch
[5]
|
Ludwigshafen,
Germany
|
Tübingen,
West Germany
|
German
|
1885–1977
|
Western Marxism,
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
|
Kommunarka shooting ground,
Russian SFSR,
Soviet Union
|
Russian
|
1888–1938
|
Bolshevism,
Left communism (initially),
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
|
Western Marxism,
Post-Marxism,
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
|
New York,
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
|
Abimael Guzmán (Gonzalo)
[13][
better source needed]
|
Arequipa,
Peru
|
Callao,
Peru
|
Peruvian
|
1934–2021
|
Marxism-Leninism-Maoism,
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
Gjirokastër),
Janina Vilayet,
Ottoman Empire
|
Tirana,
People's Socialist Republic of Albania
|
Albanian
|
1908–1985
|
Marxism-Leninism,
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–
|
Western Marxism,
Marxist hermeneutics
|
Kojin Karatani[
citation needed]
|
Amagasaki,
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
|
Çorum,
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
|
Moscow,
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
|
Western Marxism,
Hegelian Marxism
|
Vladimir Lenin
|
Simbirsk,
Russian Empire
|
Gorki Leninskiye,
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
|
Budapest,
People's Republic of Hungary
|
Hungarian
|
1885–1971
|
Budapest School,
Western Marxism,
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
|
Stolp,
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
|
Athens,
Greece
|
Paris,
France
|
Greek
|
1936–1979
|
Structural Marxism,
Leninism (initially),
Democratic socialism (later on)
|
Isaak Illich Rubin
|
Dinaburg,
Russian Empire
|
Aktobe,
Kazakh SSR,
USSR
|
Soviet Union
|
1886–1937
|
Marxism
|
Jean-Paul Sartre
|
Paris,
France
|
Paris, France
|
French
|
1905–1980
|
Neo-Marxism,
Existentialism
|
Jose Maria Sison
[18]
[19][
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
|
Kuntsevo Dacha near
Moscow,
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
|
Ljubljana,
SR Slovenia,
SFR Yugoslavia
|
Yugoslavian
|
1892–1980
|
Marxism-Leninism,
Titoism
|
Leon Trotsky
|
Yelizavetgrad,
Kherson Governorate,
Russian Empire
|
Coyoacán,
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
|
New York,
State of New York,
United States
|
German and
American
|
1896–1988
|
Marxism
|
Mao Zedong
|
Shaoshan,
Hunan,
Qing Dynasty
|
Beijing,
People's Republic of China
|
Chinese
|
1893–1976
|
Marxism-Leninism,
Maoism
|
Slavoj Žižek
|
Ljubljana,
SR Slovenia,
SFR Yugoslavia
|
Still living
|
Slovene (
Yugoslavian before
Dissolution of Yugoslavia)
|
1949–
|
Western Marxism,
Hegelian Marxism,
Psychoanalytic Marxism
|