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Karl Marx
German-born philosopher (1818-1883)
Rosa Luxemburg
Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
Bernie Sanders
United States Senator from Vermont
David Ben-Gurion
Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel (1948–1953, 1955–1963) - (born1886–1973)
Elfriede Jelinek
Austrian playwright and novelist
Emma Goldman
Russian-born American anarchist (1869–1940)
Saul Bellow
Canadian-American writer (1915–2005)
Erich Fromm
German sociologist and psychoanalyst (1900–1980)
Theodor W. Adorno
German philosopher, sociologist and theorist (1903–1969)
Theodor Herzl
father of modern political Zionism (1860–1904)
Walter Benjamin
German cultural critic, philosopher and social critic (1892–1940)
Tristan Tzara
Romanian-French poet (1896–1963)
Zhores Alferov
Soviet-Russian physicist (1930–2019)
Martin Buber
German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian (1878–1965)
Léon Blum
French politician (1872–1950)
Arthur Koestler
Hungarian-British author and journalist (1905–1983)
Dorothy Parker
American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist (1893-1967)
Georg Lukács
Hungarian marxist philosopher and literary critic (1885–1971)
Eduard Bernstein
German politician and theorist (1850–1932)
Grigory Zinoviev
Ukrainian revolutionary (1883-1936)
Ilya Ehrenburg
Soviet writer, Bolshevik revolutionary, journalist and historian (1891–1967)
Naomi Klein
Canadian author and activist (born 1970)
Ferdinand Lassalle
German jurist and socialist (1825–1864)
Max Horkheimer
German philosopher and sociologist (1895–1973)
Neve Campbell
Neve Adrianne Campbell is a Canadian actress. Campbell has amassed several credits and accolades over three decades. She emerged as a scream queen in the late 1990s for starring in horror films. She has also appeared in Canadian and American television, blockbusters and independent features.
Ernst Bloch
German philosopher (1885–1977)
Béla Kun
Hungarian Communist revolutionary and politician, the de facto leader of the Hungarian Soviet Republic in 1919, People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs
Cesare Lombroso
Italian psychiatrist, physician, and criminologist (1835-1909)
Lazar Kaganovich
Soviet politician (1893–1991)
Ed Miliband
British politician (born 1969)
Kurt Tucholsky
Jewish-German journalist, satirist and writer (1890–1935)
El Lissitzky
Soviet artist, designer, photographer, teacher, typographer and architect (1890–1941)
Natalia Ginzburg
Italian writer (1916–1991)
Vasily Grossman
Russian Soviet writer and journalist (1905-1964)
Wallace Shawn
American actor
Otto Bauer
Austrian Social Democrat (1881-1938)
Magnus Hirschfeld
German physician and sexologist (1868–1935)
William James Sidis
American child prodigy (1898-1944)
Fanny Kaplan
Russian assassin (1890-1918)
Karl Polanyi
Hungarian economist, philosopher and historian
Arnold Zweig
German writer (1887-1968)
Ernst Toller
German writer, politician and leader of the Munich Soviet Republic (1893-1939)
Pierre Mendès France
French politician (1907-1982)
Marty Feldman
British author, actor, comedian and director (1934–1982)
Moses Hess
German philosopher (1812–1875)
Yuly Martov
Russian politician (1873–1923)
Karl Radek
Russian revolutionary (1885-1939)
Gerda Taro
German photographer, best known for her reporting on the Spanish Civil War (1910–1937)
Marek Edelman
(1919–2009) Jewish resistance member
Shulamit Aloni
Israeli politician (1928-2014)
Eleanor Marx
English-born activist and daughter of Karl Marx (1855–1898)
Janet Jagan
president of Guyana, prime minister of Guyana, nurse (1920-2009)
Kurt Eisner
German politician and journalist (1867-1919)
Ruth Dreifuss
Swiss politician
Hermann Cohen
German philosopher (1842–1918)
Harold Laski
British academic (1893-1950)
Rudolf Hilferding
German politician (1877-1941)
Nancy Fraser
American philosopher
Friedrich Adler
Austrian politician (1879-1960)
Victor Adler
foreign minister of Austria, editor (1852–1918)