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English philosopher Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes, detail of an oil painting by John Michael Wright; in the National...
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John Locke
John Locke.
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Henri de Saint-Simon
Henri de Saint-Simon, lithograph by L. Deymaru, 19th century.
BBC Hulton Picture Library
Karl Marx
Revolutionary, sociologist, historian, and economist Karl Marx.
From "Karl Marx's Oekonomische Lehren", by Karl Kautsky, 1887
economic inequality
A protester holding a placard at a demonstration against economic inequality in Toronto,...
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