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Karl Marx

Karl Marx

German philosopher

Ferdinand Lassalle

Ferdinand Lassalle

German political leader

Plekhanov, Georgy Valentinovich

Georgy Valentinovich Plekhanov

Russian revolutionary

President of Chile Salvador Allende seated at a desk wearing a suit and glasses, with an earpiece in one ear, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

Salvador Allende

president of Chile

Connolly, James

James Connolly

Irish labor leader and revolutionary

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Henry Mayers Hyndman

British Marxist

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Zhou Yang

Chinese literary critic

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Abram Moiseyevich Deborin

Russian philosopher

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Vera Ivanovna Zasulich

Russian revolutionary

Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Sartre

French philosopher and author

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Jacques Rancière

French philosopher

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Louis Althusser

French scholar

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Maurice Merleau-Ponty

French philosopher

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Joan Robinson

British economist

Rudolf Hilferding, drawing by Emil Orlik, 1925.

Rudolf Hilferding

German finance minister

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C. Wright Mills

American sociologist

José Carlos Mariátegui

José Carlos Mariátegui

Peruvian political essayist

Pavel Borisovich Akselrod.

Pavel Borisovich Akselrod

Russian political scientist

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Sidney Hook

American educator and philosopher