List of Marxists

This article lists notable public figures who identified themselves as Marxists but were also notable other than as political leaders or theoreticians.

Philosophers and Sociologists

• Theodor Adorno, German sociologist and musicologist of the Frankfurt School
• Louis Althusser, French Structuralist Marxist
• Étienne Balibar, French Structuralist Marxist
• Cornelius Castoriadis, Turkish/Greek/French co-founder of Socialisme ou Barbarie.
• Christopher Caudwell, English philosopher and writer
• Terry Eagleton, British philosopher and literary critic
• Frank Furedi, British sociologist of the Revolutionary Communist Party.
• Erich Fromm, German-American Freudian Marxist
• Herbert Marcuse, German-born philosopher and sociologist of the Frankfurt School
• Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher and writer

Historians

• Isaac Deutscher, British biographer of Trotsky and Stalin
• Christopher Hill, British - 17th century England
• Rodney Hilton, British - late medieval England and France
• Eric Hobsbawm, British - 19th/20th British and International History
• T. A. Jackson, British - Ireland
• C. L. R. James, Trinidadian
• Henri Lefebvre, French
• E. P. Thompson, British - 18th Century England
• Michael Parenti, American historian and political scientist

Economists

• Paul Baran, US economist, founder with Paul Sweezy of The Monthly Review
• Ernest Mandel, Trotskyist theorist of "Late Capitalism"
• Paul Mattick US. Also council communist theoretician.
• Evygeny Preobrazhensky, Soviet left-wing economist
• Paul Sweezy US economist, founder with Paul Baran of The Monthly Review
• Shigeto Tsuru Japanese economist

Writers, artists and entertainers

• Bertolt Brecht, German dramatist
• Albert Camus, French novelist
• Charlie Chaplin, British-born actor, writer and director
• Guy Debord, French writer and director and founding member of the Situationist International
• Maxim Gorky, Russian writer
• Herman Gorter, Dutch poet and council communist
• Trevor Griffiths, British dramatist
• William Morris, British poet, novelist, artist and designer
• Robert Tressell, British novelist
• Corin Redgrave, British actor
• Vanessa Redgrave, British actor

Activists and journalists

• Angela Davis, US civil rights activist
• Paul Foot, British investigative reporter
• John Reed, US journalist and author of Ten Days that Shook the World
• Daniel Singer, French journalist and luxemburgist writer
• John Pilger, Anglo-Australian journalist and filmaker.
• José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, political philosopher, and activist.
• Derek Wall, Green Party of England and Wales former principal speaker, academic, political economy lecturer, and writer on Eco-socialism and the relationship between Marxism and ecology.

Architects

• Erno Goldfinger, Anglo-Hungarian architect whose works include Trellick Tower and Willow Road
• Berthold Lubetkin, Anglo-Russian architect whose works include [[[Highpoint I|Highpoint]] buildings, London Zoo and the masterplan for Peterlee New Town.
• [[William Morris], English founder of the Arts & Crafts movement
• Oscar Niemeyer, Brazillian architect whose works include the principal buildings and masterplan of Brazillia.

See also

• For Communist politicians and party-builders see list of communists
• For theoreticians see List of contributors to Marxist theory