List of contributors to Marxist theory

This is a list of prominent figures who contributed to Marxist theory, principally as authors; it is not intended to list politicians who happen(ed) to be a member of an ostensibly communist political party or other organisation. {{#invoke:Hatnote|hatnote}}{{#ifeq:||}}

Name	Place of birth	Place of death	Nationality	Life	Tendency
Victor Adler	Prague, Austria-Hungary	Vienna, Austria	Template:Flagicon Austrian	1852–1918	Social democracy, Austro-Marxism
Theodor W. Adorno<ref>Peter Uwe Hohendahl "Approaches to Adorno: a tentative typology" in Prismatic Thought: Theodor W. Adorno, authors: Theodor Wiesengrund Adorno, Peter Uwe Hohendahl, U of Nebraska Press, 1997 Template:ISBN, Template:ISBN, (3-20): 3.</ref>	Frankfurt am Main, Hesse-Nassau Province, Prussia, Germany	Visp, Visp, Valais, Switzerland	Template:Flagicon German	1903–1969	Frankfurt School, Western Marxism
Louis Althusser	Birmendreïs, French Algeria	Paris, France	Template:Flagicon French	1918–1990	Western Marxism, Structural Marxism, Leninism
Samir Amin	Cairo, Egypt	Paris, France	Template:Flagicon Egyptian and Template:Flagicon French	1931–2018	Third Worldism, Maoism, World-systems theory
Otto Bauer	Vienna, Austria-Hungary	Paris, France	Template:Flagicon Austrian	1881–1938	Social Democracy, Austro-Marxism
Walter Benjamin<ref name="Ceasefire Magazine 2013">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="International Socialism 2009">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Caesura 2021">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>	Berlin, German Empire	Portbou, Catalonia, Spain	Template:Flagicon German	1892–1940	Western Marxism, Marxist hermeneutics
Franco "Bifo" Berardi	Bologna, Italy	Still Living	Template:Flagicon Italian	1949–	Autonomism
Eduard Bernstein	Schöneberg, German Confederation	Berlin, Germany	Template:Flagicon German	1850–1932	Social democracy, Marxist revisionism
Caio Prado Júnior	São Paulo, Brazil	São Paulo, Brazil	Template:Flagicon Brazilian	1907–1990	Marxism
Ernst Bloch<ref>Douglas Kellner and Harry O'Hara, "Utopia and Marxism in Ernst Bloch" New German Critique 9 (Autumn, 1976) 11-34: 11-13.</ref>	Ludwigshafen, Germany	Tübingen, West Germany	Template:Flagicon German	1885–1977	Western Marxism, Marxist hermeneutics, Marxist humanism
Amadeo Bordiga	Ercolano, Kingdom of Italy	Formia, Italy	Template:Flagicon Italian	1889–1970	Italian Left communism, Leninism
Bertolt Brecht<ref>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</ref>	Augsburg, German Empire	East Berlin, East Germany	Template:Flagicon German	1898–1956	Marxist literary criticism
Nikolai Bukharin	Moscow, Russian Empire	Kommunarka shooting ground, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union	Template:Flagicon Russian	1888–1938	Bolshevism, Left communism (initially), Right opposition (later on)
Jacques Camatte	Plan-de-Cuques, Alpes-Maritimes, France	France	Template:Flagicon French	1935–2025	Bordigism, Anarcho-primitivism (later on), Communization (later on)
Cornelius Castoriadis<ref>Sven Papke, Georg W. Oesterdiekhoff, Schlüsselwerke der Soziologie (in German), VS 2001, page 79</ref>	Constantinople, Ottoman Empire	Paris, France	Template:Flagicon Greek and Template:Flagicon French	1922–1997	Western Marxism, Post-Marxism, Psychoanalytic Marxism, Libertarian socialism
Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya<ref>E.M.S. Namboodiripad, "Dialectical" Materialism and Dialectical "Materialism", Social Scientist, Vol 10 No 4 (Apr, 1982), pp.52-59</ref>	Calcutta, British Raj	Calcutta, India	Template:Flagicon Indian	1918–1993	Marxism
V. Gordon Childe	Sydney, Colony of New South Wales	Blackheath, New South Wales, Australia	Template:Flagicon Australian	1892–1957	Marxist archaeology
G. A. Cohen	Montreal, Quebec, Canada	Oxford, England	Template:Flagicon Canadian	1941–2009	Analytical Marxism
James Connolly	Cowgate, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom	Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin, Ireland	Template:Flagicon Irish and Template:Flagicon Scottish	1868–1916	Marxism, Irish republicanism
Onorato Damen	Monte San Pietrangeli, Italy	Milan	Template:Flagicon Italian	1893–1979	Italian Left communism
Gilles Dauvé	France	Still living	Template:Flagicon French	1947–	Left communism, Communization
Angela Davis	Birmingham, Alabama	Still Living	Template:Flagicon American	1944–	Marxist feminism
Guy Debord	Paris, France	Bellevue-la-Montagne, Haute-Loire, France	Template:Flagicon French	1931–1994	Situationism
Daniel De Leon	Curaçao	New York, State of New York, United States	Template:Flagicon American	1852–1914	De Leonism, Syndicalism
Joseph Dietzgen<ref>Anton Pannekoek: "The Standpoint and Significance of Josef Dietzgen's Philosophical Works" - Introduction to Joseph Dietzgen, The Positive Outcome of Philosophy, Chicago, 1928</ref>	Blankenberg (now Hennef, German Confederation	Chicago, Illinois, United States	Template:Flagicon German	1828–1888	Marxism
Raya Dunayevskaya	Yaryshev, Russian Empire (today, Vinnytsia Oblast, Ukraine)	Chicago, Illinois, United States	Template:Flagicon American	1910–1987	Marxist humanism
Terry Eagleton	Salford, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom	Still living	Template:Flagicon British	1942–	Marxism
Gilles Deleuze	Paris, France	Paris, France	Template:Flagicon French	1925–1995	Freudo-Marxism, Post-Marxism
Arghiri Emmanuel	Patras, Greece	Paris, France	Template:Flagicon Greek	1911–2001	Unequal exchange
Friedrich Engels	Barmen, Kingdom of Prussia (today Wuppertal, Germany)	London, United Kingdom	Template:Flagicon German	1820–1895	Classical Marxism
Frantz Fanon	Fort-de-France, Martinique, France	Bethesda, Maryland, United States	Template:Flagicon French	1925–1961	Marxist humanism, Pan-Africanism, Decolonization
John Bellamy Foster	Seattle, Washington, United States	Still living	Template:Flagicon American	1953–	Marxism
Herman Gorter	Wormerveer	Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Brussels	Template:Flagicon Dutch	1864–1927	Council communism
Antonio Gramsci	Ales, Sardinia, Italy	Rome, Lazio, Italy	Template:Flagicon Italian	1891–1937	Gramscianism, Western Marxism, Marxist humanism, Neo-Marxism
Félix Guattari	Villeneuve-les-Sablons, France	Cour-Cheverny, France	Template:Flagicon French	1930–1992	Freudo-Marxism, Post-Marxism
Ernesto "Che" Guevara<ref>"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</ref><ref>"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</ref><ref>"...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</ref>	Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina	La Higuera, Vallegrande, Bolivia	Template:Flagicon Argentine	1928–1967	Marxism-Leninism, Guevarism
Abimael Guzmán (Gonzalo)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Better source	Arequipa, Peru	Callao, Peru	Template:Flagicon Peruvian	1934–2021	Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, Gonzalo thought
Ted Grant	Germiston, South Africa	London, United Kingdom	Template:Flagicon South African and Template:Flagicon British	1913–2006	Trotskyism
David Harvey	Gillingham, Kent, England, United Kingdom	Still living	Template:Flagicon British	1935–	Marxist geography
Harry Haywood	South Omaha, Nebraska, United States	Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States	Template:Flagicon American	1898–1985	Marxism-Leninism
Rudolf Hilferding	Vienna, Austria-Hungary	Paris, France	Template:Flagicon Austrian and Template:Flagicon German	1877–1941	Austro-Marxism
Max Horkheimer	Zuffenhausen (now Stuttgart), Württemberg, German Empire	Nuremberg, Bavaria, West Germany	Template:Flagicon German	1895–1973	Frankfurt School, Western Marxism
Ho Chi Minh	Nghệ An Province, French Indochina	Hanoi, North Vietnam	Template:Flagicon 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	Template:Flagicon Albanian	1908–1985	Marxism-Leninism, Mao Zedong Thought (initially), Hoxhaism
C.L.R. James	Trinidad	London, United Kingdom	Template:Flagicon Trinidadian and Template:Flagicon British	1901–1989	Marxism, Pan-Africanism, Anti-Stalinist left
Fredric Jameson	Cleveland, Ohio, United States	Killingworth, Connecticut, United States	Template:Flagicon American	1934–2024	Western Marxism, Marxist hermeneutics
Kojin KarataniTemplate:Cn	Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan	Still living	Template:Flagicon Japanese	1941–	Marxist literary criticism
Edvard KardeljTemplate:Cn	Ljubljana, Duchy of Carniola, Austria-Hungary	Ljubljana, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	Template:Flagicon Yugoslavian	1910–1979	Titoism
Karl Kautsky	Prague, Austria-Hungary	Amsterdam, Netherlands	Template:Flagicon Czech, Template:Flagicon Austrian and Template:Flagicon German	1854–1938	Orthodox Marxism
İbrahim KaypakkayaTemplate:Cn	Çorum, Turkey	Çorum, Turkey	Template:Flagicon Turkish	1949–1973	Maoism
Kim Il-SungTemplate:Cn	Chingjong, Korea	Hyangsan, Korea	Template:Flagicon Korean	1912–1994	Marxism-Leninism, Juche
Jim KemmyTemplate:Cn	Limerick, Ireland	Limerick, Ireland	Template:Flagicon Irish	1936–1997	Marxism
Alexandra Kollontai<ref>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 Template:Webarchive last accessed: 20090704.</ref>	St Petersburg, Russian Empire	Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union	Template:Flagicon Soviet	1872–1952	Marxist feminism, Bolshevism
Karl Korsch	Tostedt, German Empire	Belmont, Massachusetts, United States	Template:Flagicon German	1886–1961	Western Marxism
Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi	Kosben, (now Goa) British Raj	Pune, Maharashtra, India	Template:Flagicon Indian	1907–1966	Marxism
Yalçın KüçükTemplate:Cn	İskenderun, Hatay, Turkey	Still living	Template:Flagicon Turkish	1938–	Marxism
Antonio Labriola	Cassino, Papal States	Rome, Kingdom of Italy	Template:Flagicon Italian	1843–1904	Marxism
Paul Lafargue	Santiago de Cuba	Draveil, France	Template:Flagicon French	1842–1911	Marxism, Anti-work
Henri Lefebvre<ref>Friedmann, John (1987). Planning in the public domain: from knowledge to action. Princeton.</ref>	Hagetmau, France	Navarrenx, France	Template:Flagicon French	1901–1991	Western Marxism, Hegelian Marxism
Vladimir Lenin	Simbirsk, Russian Empire	Gorki Leninskiye, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union	Template:Flagicon Soviet	1870–1924	Leninism, Bolshevism
Karl Liebknecht	Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire	Berlin, Weimar Republic	Template:Flagicon German	1871–1919	Spartacism
Domenico Losurdo	Sannicandro di Bari, Kingdom of Italy	Ancona, Italy	Template:Flagicon Italian	1941–2018	Marxism
Georg Lukács	Budapest, Austria-Hungary	Budapest, People's Republic of Hungary	Template:Flagicon Hungarian	1885–1971	Budapest School, Western Marxism, Hegelian Marxism, Leninism
Rosa Luxemburg	Zamość, Vistula Land, Russian Empire	Berlin, Germany	Template:Flagicon Polish and Template:Flagicon German	1871–1919	Spartacism
Herbert Marcuse	Berlin, German Empire	Starnberg, West Germany	Template:Flagicon German	1898–1979	Frankfurt School, Western Marxism
José Carlos Mariátegui<ref>John Kraniauskas "From the Archive: Introduction to Maria´tegui" Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2001 303-304. {{#invoke:doi|main}} 3</ref><ref>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.</ref>	Moquegua, Peru	Lima, Peru	Template:Flagicon Peruvian	1894–1930	Marxism, Sorelianism
Andreas Malm	Mölndal, Sweden	Still living	Template:Flagicon Swedish	1977–	Marxism
Karl Marx	Trier, Kingdom of Prussia	London, United Kingdom	Template:Flagicon Prussian and Template:Flagicon German	1818–1883	Classical Marxism
Paul Mattick	Stolp, Pomerania, German Empire (now Poland)	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States	Template:Flagicon German	1904–1981	Council communism
Andy Merrifield	Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom	Still living	Template:Flagicon British	1960–	"Magical Marxism"
István Mészáros	Budapest, Hungary	Margate, England	Template:Flagicon Hungary	1930–2017	Marxism
Antonio Negri	Padua, Italy	Paris, France	Template:Flagicon Italian	1933–2023	Autonomism
Kwame Nkrumah	Nkroful, Gold Coast (now Ghana)	Bucharest, Romania	Template:Flagicon Ghanaian	1909–1972	Nkrumahism
Abdullah ÖcalanTemplate:Cn	Ömerli, Şanlıurfa, Turkey	Still living	Template:Flagicon Turkish Kurdish	1948–	Democratic confederalism
Sylvia PankhurstTemplate:Citation needed	Manchester, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom	Addis Ababa, Ethiopia	Template:Flagicon British and Template:Flagicon Ethiopian	1882–1960	Council communism
Anton Pannekoek	Vaassen, Netherlands	Wageningen, Netherlands	Template:Flagicon Dutch	1873–1960	Council communism
Evgeny Pashukanis	Staritsa, Russian Empire	Soviet Union	Template:Flagicon Russian	1891–1937	Leninism
Georgi Plekhanov	Gudalovka (now Gryazinsky District), Tambov Governorate, Russian Empire	Terijoki, Finland	Template:Flagicon Russian	1856–1918	Marxism
Bijan JazaniTemplate:Cn	Tehran, Iran	Tehran, Iran	Template:Flagicon Iranian	1938–1975	Marxism
Nicos Poulantzas	Athens, Greece	Paris, France	Template:Flagicon Greek	1936–1979	Structural Marxism, Leninism (initially), Democratic socialism (later on)
Isaak Illich Rubin	Dinaburg, Russian Empire	Aktobe, Kazakh SSR, USSR	Template:Flagicon Soviet Union	1886–1937	Marxism
Jean-Paul Sartre	Paris, France	Paris, France	Template:Flagicon French	1905–1980	Neo-Marxism, Existentialism
Jose Maria Sison<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Better source	Ilocos Sur, Philippines	Utrecht, Netherlands	Template:Flagicon Filipino	1939 - 2022	Marxism-Leninism-Maoism
Alfred Sohn-Rethel	Neuilly-sur-Seine, France	Bremen, West Germany	Template:Flagicon German	1899–1990	Marxism
Mahdi AmelTemplate:Cn	Harouf, Lebanon	Beirut, Lebanon	Template:Flagicon Lebanese	1936–1987	Marxism
Joseph Stalin<ref>Ben Agger "Critical Theory, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism: Their Sociological Relevance" Annual Review of Sociology Vol. 17: 105-131 {{#invoke:doi|main}}</ref><ref>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</ref>	Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire	Kuntsevo Dacha near Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union	Template:Flagicon Soviet	1878–1953	Marxism-Leninism, Stalinism
Paul Sweezy	New York City, New York, United States	Larchmont, New York (state), United States	Template:Flagicon American	1910–2004	Neo-Marxism
Josip Broz Tito {{ safesubst:#invoke:Unsubst	$B= Template:Fix }}	Kumrovec, Croatia-Slavonia, Austria-Hungary	Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia	Template:Flagicon Yugoslavian	1892–1980	Marxism-Leninism, Titoism
Leon Trotsky	Yelizavetgrad, Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire	Coyoacán, Distrito Federal, Mexico	Template:Flagicon Soviet	1879–1940	Leninism, Bolshevism, Trotskyism
Alberto Toscano	Italy	Still living	Template:Flagicon Italy	1977–	Western Marxism
Raymond Williams	Llanfihangel Crucorney, Wales, United Kingdom	Saffron Walden, England, United Kingdom	Template:Flagicon British (Template:Flagicon 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	Template:Flagicon German and Template:Flagicon American	1896–1988	Marxism
Mao Zedong	Shaoshan, Hunan, Qing Dynasty	Beijing, People's Republic of China	Template:Flagicon Chinese	1893–1976	Marxism-Leninism, Maoism
Slavoj Žižek	Ljubljana, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia	Still living	Template:Flagicon Slovene (Template:Flagicon Yugoslavian before Dissolution of Yugoslavia)	1949–	Western Marxism, Hegelian Marxism, Psychoanalytic Marxism

See also

• List of Marxian economists

References

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