Miliband's ideas were an influence on other revolutionary socialists, including those of his friend, the Pakistani-British historian and activist Tariq Ali.

Moniza Alvi ( born 2 February 1954 ) is a Pakistani-British poet and writer.

The later Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm remarked that " One cannot say Marx died a failure " because, although he had not achieved a large following of disciples in Britain, his writings had already begun to make an impact on the leftist movements in Germany and Russia.

According to the historian David P. Chandler, the leftist Issarak groups, aided by the Viet Minh, occupied a sixth of Cambodia's territory by 1952 ; and, on the eve of the Geneva Conference, they controlled as much as one half of the country.

Closer to his work as a historian, Taylor championed less government secrecy and, paradoxically for a staunch leftist, fought for more privately-owned television stations.

According to the historian David P. Chandler, the leftist Issarak groups, aided by the Viet Minh, occupied a sixth of Cambodia's territory by 1952 ; and, on the eve of the Geneva Conference, they controlled as much as one half of the country.

' * The historian of genocide, Ben Kiernan, who classifies the fate of aborigines as an example of the practice, situates Windschuttle's polemical history within a new campaign, led by Quadrant, but taken up by a ' chorus of right-wing columnists ' within the Australian mass media with a record of antagonism to both Aborigines and their ' leftist ' supporters.

Tomasz Nałęcz ( born October 10, 1949, in Gołymin ) is a Polish historian, leftist politician, former vice-Speaker of the Sejm and a former member of the Social Democracy of Poland party ( dPl ).

He was a known leftist historian of the Philippines.

After the indecisive < ref name =" British historian Townsend Miller "> British historian Townsend Miller: “ But, if the outcome of < nowiki > battle of </ nowiki > Toro, militarily, is debatable, there is no doubt whatsoever as to its enormous psychological and political effects ” in The battle of Toro, 1476, in History Today, volume 14, 1964, p. 270 </ ref > Battle of Toro in 1476 against King Ferdinand II of Aragon, the husband of Isabella I of Castile, he went to France to obtain the assistance of Louis XI, but finding himself deceived by the French monarch, he returned to Portugal in 1477 in very low spirits.

* 2007 – René Rémond, French historian and political economist ( b. 1918 )

According to historian of Communism Archie Brown, the memory of the Cultural Revolution, where a form of mass political mobilization turned against the Party and resulted in chaotic destruction, may account for the reticence of educated Chinese to press for an end to one-party rule.

In his critique of colonialism in Africa, the Guyanese historian and political activist Walter Rodney states:

After the collapse of the First Empire in 1815, the French public lost the rights and privileges earned since the Revolution, but they remembered the participatory politics that characterized the period, with one historian commenting: " Thousands of men and even many women gained firsthand experience in the political arena: they talked, read, and listened in new ways ; they voted ; they joined new organizations ; and they marched for their political goals.

As described in Isaac Asimov's autobiography In Memory Yet Green, the Futurians spun off from the Greater New York Science Fiction Club ( headed by Sam Moskowitz, later an influential SF editor and historian ) over ideological differences, with the Futurians wishing to take a more overt political stance.

Every historian uses one ( or more ) historiographical traditions, for example Marxist, Annales School, " total history ", or political history.

Schneider proposes that by testing an historian against the criteria of the " objective historian " then, even if an historian holds specific political views ( and she gives an example of a well-qualified historian's testimony that was disregarded by a United States court because he was a member of a feminist group ), providing the historian uses the " objective historian " standards, he or she is a " conscientious historian ".

It was Irving's failure as an " objective historian " not his right wing views that caused him to loose his libel case, as a " conscientious historian " would not have " deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence " to support his political views.

His wide-ranging Spirit of the Laws ( 1748 ) spanned legal, geographical, cultural, economic, political and philosophical studies and was greatly influential in forging the fundamentally interdisciplinary historian.

Godwin's political views were diverse and do not perfectly agree with any of the ideologies that claim his influence ; writers of the Socialist Standard, organ of the Socialist Party of Great Britain, consider Godwin both an individualist and a communist ; anarcho-capitalist Murray Rothbard did not regard Godwin as being in the individualist camp at all, referring to him as the " founder of communist anarchism "; and historian Albert Weisbord considers him an individualist anarchist without reservation.

According to historian Bernard Lewis, Islamism, ( or as he terms it " activist " Islam ), along with " quietism ," form two " particular ... political traditions " in Islam.

Punch historian M. H. Spielmann, who knew Tenniel, understood that the political clout contained in his Punch cartoons was capable of “ swaying parties and people, too … ( the cartoons ) exercised great influence ” on the ideas of popular reform skirting throughout the British public.

The historian Clinton Rossiter called the Federalist Papers “ the most important work in political science that ever has been written, or is likely ever to be written, in the United States .” They were not scholarly arguments or impartial justifications for the constitution, but political polemics intended to assist the federalists in New York, which was the only state to have a coordinated anti-federalist movement.

As a political economist and economic historian, Weber belonged to the " youngest " German historical school of economics, represented by academics such as Gustav von Schmoller and his student Werner Sombart.

* 1917 – Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., American historian and political commentator ( d. 2007 )

However, by the late 1960s, many of Structuralism's basic tenets came under attack from a new wave of predominantly French intellectuals such as the philosopher and historian Michel Foucault, the philosopher and social commentator Jacques Derrida, the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser, and the literary critic Roland Barthes.

* March 14 – Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator ( b. 1725 )

** Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., American historian and political commentator ( d. 2007 )

* December 18 – Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator ( d. 1791 )

Suttner was also a journalist, with one historian stating her work revealed her as " a most perceptive and adept political commentator ".

Li Ao () ( born April 25, 1935 ), is a writer, social commentator, historian, and independent politician in the Republic of China ( Taiwan ).

Jim Duffy ( born 12 April 1966 ) is an Irish historian, political commentator, and served as a policy advisor to then Irish leader of the Opposition, Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny prior to the 2011 general election.

Jazz historian and commentator Ira Gitler declared that Tatum's " left hand was the equal of his right.

Johann Salomo Semler ( 18 December 1725 – 14 March 1791 ) was a German church historian, biblical commentator, and critic ecclesiastical documents and of the history of dogmas.

His fame rests primarily on his work as a historian and commentator of philosophy.

According to Nidhi Eoseewong, a prominent Thai historian, writer, and political commentator, Taksin could be seen as the originator, new style of leader, promoting the ' decentralized ' kingdom and new generation of the nobles, of Chinese merchants-origin, his major helpers in the wars.

Elamkulam Manakkal Sankaran Namboodiripad, (, 13 June 1909 – 19 March 1998 ), popularly known as E. M. S., was an Indian Communist leader, Socialist-Marxist theorist, revolutionary, author, historian, social commentator and the first Chief Minister of Kerala state.

* Jim Duffy ( journalist ) ( born 1966 ), Irish historian and political commentator

Tariq Ali ( Punjabi, ), ( born 21 October 1943 ), is a British Pakistani historian, novelist, journalist, filmmaker, public intellectual, political campaigner, activist, and commentator.

The New Party nominated independent social commentator Li Ao — an acclaimed author, historian, and former political prisoner — for president and legislator Elmer Fung for vice president.

Panelists included Review contributors such as Didion, novelist and literary critic Darryl Pinckney, political commentator Michael Tomasky, historian Garry Wills, and Columbia University professor Andrew Delbanco.

Following a stateside tour at the Pentagon and promotion to lieutenant colonel, Hackworth co-wrote " The Vietnam Primer " with Marshall after returning to Vietnam in the winter of 1966-67 on an army-sponsored tour with the famous historian and commentator.

A Syriac bishop, philosopher, poet, grammarian, physician, biblical commentator, historian, and theologian, he was the son of a physician, Aaron (, ).

* Opera commentator / historian Michael Scott avers that: " Chaliapin ranks with Caruso and Maria Callas as one of the three greatest singers and most potent and influential artists of the twentieth century.

Other writers to have praised Bread & Puppet include historian Howard Zinn, who praises its " magic, beauty, and power ", and poet and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu, who wrote: " The Bread & Puppet Theater has been so long a part of America's conscious struggle for our better selves, that it has become, paradoxically, a fixture of our subconscious.

* Pierre Berton -- Klondike-born historian and commentator, prominent in Canadian politics and popular historical writing, a " character " who, late in life endorsed marijuana legalization and rolled a joint of marijuana on television, on the CBC comedy program Rick Mercer Report

Ortiz was subsequently supported in her criticism by fellow commentator at National Interest Online, Anatol Lieven, who raised the levels of criticism to include Cohens efforts as a historian and analyst as well as tackling other pronouncements on US foreign policy in the middle east made by Cohen.

Robert Kagan ( born September 26, 1958 in Athens, Greece ) is an American historian, author and foreign policy commentator at the Brookings Institution.