List of contributors to Marxist theory

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This is a list of those who contributed to Marxist theory, principally as authors; it is not intended to list politicians who happen(ed) to be a member of a nominally communist political party or other organisation.

• Theodor W. Adorno^[1]
• Louis Althusser
• Antonio Labriola
• Walter Benjamin^{[citation needed]}
• Eduard Bernstein
• Ernst Bloch^[2]
• Amadeo Bordiga
• Bertolt Brecht^[3]
• Cornelius Castoriadis^[4]
• Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya^[5]
• James Connolly
• Guy Debord
• Daniel De Leon
• Joseph Dietzgen^[6]
• Raya Dunayevskaya
• Terry Eagleton
• Friedrich Engels
• Ernesto "Che" Guevara^[7][8][9]
• Antonio Gramsci
• Harry Haywood
• Max Horkheimer
• Enver Hoxha
• C.L.R. James
• Fredric Jameson
• Edvard Kardelj
• Karl Kautsky
• Alexandra Kollontai^[10]
• Karl Korsch
• D. D. Kosambi
• Paul Lafargue
• Henri Lefebvre^[11]
• Vladimir Lenin
• Georg Lukács
• Rosa Luxemburg
• Jan Wacław Machajski^{[dubious – discuss]}
• Herbert Marcuse
• Sam Marcy ^[12][13]
• José Carlos Mariátegui^[14][15]
• Karl Marx
• Paul Mattick
• Andy Merrifield
• Antonio Negri
• Sylvia Pankhurst^{[citation needed]}
• Anton Pannekoek
• Georgi Plekhanov
• Nicos Poulantzas
• Maximilien Rubel
• Otto Rühle
• Alfred Sohn-Rethel
• Joseph Stalin^[16][17]
• Kim Il-sung^{[dubious – discuss]}
• George Derwent Thomson^{[citation needed]}
• Leon Trotsky
• Raymond Williams
• Karl August Wittfogel
• Mao Zedong
• Slavoj Žižek
• Josip Broz Tito^{[dubious – discuss]}

References

1. ^ 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 ISBN 0803273053, 9780803273054, (3-20): 3.
2. ^ Douglas Kellner and Harry O'Hara, "Utopia and Marxism in Ernst Bloch" New German Critique 9 (Autumn, 1976) 11-34: 11-13.
3. ^ 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
4. ^ Sven Papke, Georg W. Oesterdiekhoff, Schlüsselwerke der Soziologie (in German), VS 2001, page 79
5. ^ E.M.S. Namboodiripad, "Dialectical" Materialism and Dialectical "Materialism", Social Scientist, Vol 10 No 4 (Apr, 1982), pp.52-59
6. ^ Anton Pannekoek: "The Standpoint and Significance of Josef Dietzgen's Philosophical Works" - Introduction to Joseph Dietzgen, The Positive Outcome of Philosophy, Chicago, 1928
7. ^ "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
8. ^ "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
9. ^ "...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
10. ^ 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 last accessed: 20090704.
11. ^ Friedmann, John (1987). Planning in the public domain: from knowledge to action. Princeton.
12. ^ "The global class war and the destiny of American labor." New York: Socialist Workers Party, 1953. (Internal bulletin, vol. 15, no. 15. May, 1953).
13. ^ "A Note on Economic Growth in Eastern Europe", Austin Murphy, Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 32, No. 4 (Dec., 1998), pp. 1150-1152
14. ^ John Kraniauskas "From the Archive: Introduction to Maria´tegui" Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2001 303-304. DOI: 10.1080/1356932012009006 3
15. ^ 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.
16. ^ Ben Agger "Critical Theory, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism: Their Sociological Relevance" Annual Review of Sociology Vol. 17: 105-131 (doi:10.1146/annurev.so.17.080191.000541)
17. ^ 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