Yet, at the 5th Congress of the Communist International ( July 1924 ), Grigory Zinoviev formally denounced Georg Lukács's heterodox definition of orthodox Marxism as exclusively derived from fidelity to the " Marxist method ", and not to Communist party dogmas ; and denounced the Marxism developments of the German theorist Karl Korsch.

Among his collaborators on the magazine ’ s editorial board were the future director Ettore Scola, Marxist theorist and scriptwriter Cesare Zavattini, and Bernardino Zapponi, a future Fellini screenwriter.

* 1873 – Antonie Pannekoek, Dutch astronomer and Marxist theorist ( d. 1960 )

* Rosa Luxemburg ( Polish-Jewish-German Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolutionary )

Leon Trotsky (, ; – 21 August 1940 ), born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein, was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army.

* Leon Trotsky, Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist

They are, in my opinion, the most outstanding figures ( among the youngest ones ), and the following must be borne in mind about them: Bukharin is not only a most valuable and major theorist of the Party ; he is also rightly considered the favourite of the whole Party, but his theoretical views can be classified as fully Marxist only with great reserve, for there is something scholastic about him ( he has never made a study of the dialectics, and, I think, never fully understood it )...

Thinkers most typically linked with Structuralism include anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, the early writings of psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, the early writings of literary theorist Roland Barthes, and the semiotician Algirdas Greimas.

" Leon Trotsky, a Marxist theorist, assumed that the world revolution would lead to a communist world peace.

Friedrich Engels (; 28 November 1820 – 5 August 1895 ) was a German-English industrialist, social scientist, author, political theorist, philosopher, and father of Marxist theory, alongside Karl Marx.

He was also a student of the Marxist theorist Herbert Marcuse, whom Hoffman said had a profound effect on his political outlook after studying his philosophy.

The English literary critic and cultural theorist, Terry Eagleton, defines Marxist criticism this way:

The Marxist literary critic, essayist, and social theorist György Lukács wrote extensively on the aesthetic and political significance of the historical novel.

* Terry Eagleton, Marxist literary theorist

No other crime of the Stalin years so captivated Western intellectuals as the trial and execution of Bukharin, who was a Marxist theorist of international standing.

* Rosa Luxemburg ( 1871 – 1919 )-was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and activist of Polish Jewish descent who became a naturalized German citizen.

Thomas Isidore Noël Sankara ( December 21, 1949 – October 15, 1987 ) was a Burkinabé military captain, Marxist revolutionary, Pan-Africanist theorist, and President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987.

Rosa Luxemburg ( Rosalia Luxemburg, ; 5 March 1871, Zamość, Vistula Land, Russia – 15 January 1919, Berlin, Germany ) was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and revolutionary socialist of Polish Jewish descent who became a naturalized German citizen.

From then until his death, Lafargue remained the most respected theorist of the POF, not just extending the original Marxist doctrines, but also adding original ideas of his own.

In Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism ( 1991 ), the Marxist theorist Fredric Jameson linked the reification of information and knowledge to the post-modern distinction between authentic knowledge ( experience ) and counterfeit knowledge ( vicarious experience ), which usually is acquired through the mass communications media.

Antonie ( Anton ) Pannekoek ( 2 January 1873, Vaassen, Gelderland – 28 April 1960, Wageningen ) was a Dutch astronomer, Marxist theorist, and social revolutionary.

As a recognized Marxist theorist, Pannekoek was one of the founders of the council communist tendency and a main figure in the radical left in the Netherlands and Germany.

* Rosa Luxembourg, Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist and activist of Polish Jewish descent

Max Shachtman (; September 10, 1904 – November 4, 1972 ) was an American Marxist theorist.

* 1856 – Georgi Plekhanov, Russian revolutionary and Marxist theoretician ( d. 1918 )

Georgi Plekhanov, the father of Russian Marxism, later introduced the term dialectical materialism to Marxist literature.

** Georgi Plekhanov, Russian revolutionary and Marxist theoretician ( d. 1918 )

Georgi Valentinovich Plekhanov () ( November 29, 1856 – May 30, 1918 ) was a Russian revolutionary and a Marxist theoretician.

* Georgi Plekhanov ( 1856 – 1918 ), Russian revolutionary and Marxist theoretician

* Georgi Dimitrov Reference Archive at Marxist Internet Archive.

Axelrod co-founded the Marxist group Emancipation of Labor in Switzerland with his lifelong friend Georgi Plekhanov and Vera Zasulich in 1883.

* Volgin, nom de guerre of the revolutinary and Marxist theorist Georgi Plekhanov

During these years from 1882 through 1883, Plekhanov became a convinced Marxist and in the late 1880s he established personal contact with Frederick Engels.

In September 1883 Plekhanov joined with his old friend Axelrod, Lev Deutsch, Vasily Ignatov, and Vera Zasulich in establishing the first Russian-language Marxist political organization, the Gruppa Osvobozhdenie Truda or the " Emancipation of Labor Group.

It was during this period that Plekhanov began to write and publish the first of his important political works, including the pamphlet Socialism and Political Struggle ( 1883 ) and the full-length book Our Differences ( 1885 ) These works first expressed the Marxist position for a Russian audience and delineated the points of departure of the Marxists from the Populist movement.

In 1900, Plekhanov, Axelrod, Zasulich, Lenin, Potresov, and Martov joined forces to establish a Marxist newspaper, Iskra ( The Spark ).

Despite their sharp differences, Plekhanov was recognized, even in his own lifetime, as having made a great contribution to Marxist philosophy and literature by V. I.

Plekhanov, Deich, Zasulich and other ex-members of BR took sides with Marxism and created the first Russian Marxist organization called Emancipation of Labor ( Освобождение труда, or Osvobozhdeniye truda ) in Geneva in 1883.

In 1900, Axelrod, Plekhanov and Zasulich joined forces with younger revolutionary Marxists Julius Martov, Vladimir Lenin and Alexander Potresov and the six edited Iskra, a Marxist newspaper, from 1900 to 1903.

Claude Cahen ( 1909, Paris – 1991 ) was a French Marxist orientalist and historian.

Maurice Campbell Cornforth ( 28 October 1909 – 31 December 1980 ) was a British Marxist philosopher.