Marxist Humanists
Notable thinkers associated with Marxist humanism include:
- György Lukács (1885-1971) Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic.
- Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) was a German Marxist philosopher.
- John Lewis (philosopher) (1889-1976) British Unitarian minister and Marxist philosopher.
- Antonio Gramsci (1891–1937) an Italian writer, politician, political philosopher, and linguist.
- Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) German-Jewish Marxist literary critic, essayist, translator, and philosopher.
- Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979) German philosopher and sociologist, and a member of the Frankfurt School.
- Erich Fromm (1900-1980) internationally renowned social psychologist, psychoanalyst, and humanistic philosopher.
- C. L. R. James (1901-1989) Afro-Trinidadian journalist, socialist theorist and writer.
- Henri Lefebvre (1901-1991) was a French sociologist, intellectual and philosopher who was generally considered a Neo-Marxist.
- Günther Anders (1902-1992) was a Jewish philosopher and journalist who developed a philosophical anthropology for the age of technology.
- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.
- Salvador Allende (1908-1973) Former President of Chile.
- Raya Dunayevskaya (1910-1987) founder of the philosophy of Marxist Humanism in the United States of America.
- Christopher Hill (historian) (1912-2003) English Marxist historian.
- Lucien Goldmann (1913-1970) French philosopher and sociologist of Jewish-Romanian origin.
- Paulo Freire (1921-1997) Brazilian educator and influential theorist of critical pedagogy.
- André Gorz (1923-2007) Austrian and French social philosopher.
- E. P. Thompson (1924-1993) English historian, socialist and peace campaigner.
- Frantz Fanon (1925-1961) Psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionary, and author from Martinique.
- Ivan Sviták (1925-1994) Czech social critic and aesthetic theorist.
- Karel Kosík (1926-2003) Czech philosopher, synthesized phenomenology and humanistic Marxism.
- Wang Ruoshui (1926-2002) Chinese journalist and philosopher.
- John Berger (b. 1926) English art critic, novelist, painter and author.
- Leszek Kołakowski (1927-2009) Polish philosopher and historian of ideas.
- Che Guevara (1928-1967) Argentine revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist.
- David McReynolds (b. 1929) American democratic socialist and pacifist activist.
- Frankfurt School (1930s onwards) The Frankfurt School is a school of neo-Marxist critical theory, social research, and philosophy.
- Marshall Berman (b. 1940) American Marxist Humanist writer and philosopher.
- Peter McLaren (b. 1948) one of the leading architects of critical pedagogy.
- News and Letters Committees (1950s onwards) is a small, revolutionary-socialist organization in the United States. It is the world's most prominent Marxist-Humanist organization.
- Lewis Gordon (b. 1962) Black American philosopher.
- Nigel Gibson British & American philosopher
- Praxis School (1960s and 1970s) Marxist humanist philosophical movement. It originated in Zagreb and Belgrade in the SFR Yugoslavia.
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