leon trotsky
Trotsky was initially a supporter of the Menshevik Internationalists faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He joined the Bolsheviks immediately prior to the 1917 October Revolution, and eventually became a leader within the Party. During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Red Army as People's Commissar of Military and Naval Affairs. He was a major figure in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War (1918 – 20). He was also among the first members of the Politburo.…more
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (1854 - 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of Londons most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigram...
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Leon Trotsky
Leon Trotsky (1879 - 1940) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.Trotsky was initially a supporter of the Menshevik Internationalists faction of the Russian Social Democratic ...
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Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht (born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht; 10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956) was a German poet, playwright, theatre director, and Marxist.A theatre practitioner of the 20th century, Brecht made contributions to dramaturgy and theatrical produc...
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was a German philosopher and an important figure of German idealism. He achieved wide renown in his day and, while primarily influential within the continental tradition of philosophy, has become increasingly influential in t...
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D.h. Lawrence
An English author, poet, playwright, essayist and literary critic. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and v...
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T.s. Eliot
T.S. Eliot (1888 - 1965) was an essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic and "one of the twentieth centurys major poets." Eliot attracted widespread attention for his poem The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1915), which is seen ...
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Perry Anderson
Perry Anderson (b. 1938) is an English Leftist intellectual, historian, and political essayist. He is often identified with the post-1956 Western Marxism of the New Left in Europe. He is Professor of History and Sociology at the University of California, ...
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Walter Benjamin
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic, media theorist, and essayist. An eclectic thinker who combined elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, Jewish mysticism, and neo-Kantianism, Benjamin ma...
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E.p. Thompson
Edward Palmer Thompson (1924 - 1993) was an English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner. He is probably best known today for his historical work on the radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in particular The Making of ...
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Francis Fukuyama
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Raymond Williams
Raymond Henry Williams (1921 - 1988) was a Welsh Marxist theorist, academic, novelist and critic. He was an influential figure within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature made a significant co...
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David Harvey
David Harvey (born 31 October 1935, Gillingham, Kent, England) is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). A leading social theorist of international standing, he received his PhD in Geo...
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Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein
Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889 - 1951) was an Austrian philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. He is considered by some to be the greatest philosopher of the...