Flashcards: German Marxists

Robert Kurz (24 December 1943 – 18 July 2012) was a German Marxist philosopher, social critic, journalist and editor of the journal Exit!.

August Thalheimer (18 March 1884 – 19 September 1948) was a German Marxist activist and theoretician.

Rosa Luxemburg (also Rozalia Luxenburg; Polish: Róża Luksemburg; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a Marxist theorist, philosopher, economist, anti-war activist, and revolutionary socialist of Polish-Jewish descent who became a naturalized German citizen.

Max Horkheimer (February 14, 1895 – July 7, 1973) was a German philosopher and sociologist who was famous for his work in critical theory as a member of the 'Frankfurt School' of social research.

Ludwig Woltmann (born 18 February 1871 in Solingen; died 30 January 1907) was a German anthropologist, zoologist and Marxist theoretician.

Theodor W. Adorno (/əˈdɔːrnoʊ/; German: [aˈdɔʀno]; born Theodor Ludwig Wiesengrund; September 11, 1903 – August 6, 1969) was a German philosopher, sociologist, and composer known for his critical theory of society.

Johann Joseph "Hans" Most (February 5, 1846 in Augsburg, Bavaria – March 17, 1906 in Cincinnati, Ohio) was a German-American anarchist politician, newspaper editor, and orator.

Arthur Rosenberg (1889–1943) was a German Marxist historian and writer.

Otto Rühle (23 October 1874 in Großschirma – 24 June 1943 in Mexico) was a German Marxist active in opposition to both the First and Second World Wars, and a founder along with Karl Liebknecht, Rosa Luxemburg, Franz Mehring and others of the group and magazine Internationale, which posed a revolutionary internationalism against a world of warring states, and also the Spartacist League (Spartakusbund in German) in 1916.

Joseph Arnold Weydemeyer (February 2, 1818, Münster – August 26, 1866, St. Louis, Missouri) was a military officer in the Kingdom of Prussia and the United States, as well as a journalist, politician and Marxist revolutionary.

Jenny Laura Marx (26 September 1845 – 25 November 1911), better known as Laura Marx, was the second daughter of Karl Marx and Jenny von Westphalen.

Jenny Caroline "Jennychen" Marx Longuet (1 May 1844 – 11 January 1883) was the eldest daughter of Jenny von Westphalen Marx and Karl Marx.

Hans Mayer (March 19, 1907 in Cologne – May 19, 2001 in Tübingen) was a German literary scholar.

Walter Haenisch (Dortmund 1906 - Butovo 1938) was a Marxist theoretician and the son of German SPD politician Konrad Haenisch.

Alfred Willi Rudi Dutschke (March 7, 1940 – December 24, 1979) was the most prominent spokesperson of the German student movement of the 1960s.

Paul Frölich (7 August 1884 – 16 March 1953) was a journalist and left wing political activist who was a founding member of the Communist Party of Germany and founder of the party's paper, Die Rote Fahne.

Konrad Haenisch (13 March 1876 - 28 April 1925) was a German Social Democratic Party politician and part of "the radical Marxist Left" of German politics.

Friedrich "Fritz" Sternberg (11 June 1895 – 18 October 1963) was a German economist, sociologist, Marxist theorist, and socialist politician.

Karl Korsch (August 15, 1886 – October 21, 1961) was a German Marxist theoretician.

("Piscator" redirects here. For other uses, see Piscator (disambiguation).) Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator (17 December 1893 – 30 March 1966) was a German theatre director and producer and, along with Bertolt Brecht, the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or on the production's formal beauty.

Paul Mattick, Sr.

Dietmar Dath (born 3 April 1970 in Rheinfelden) German author, journalist and translator.

Helmut Reichelt (born 1939, Borås) is a German Marxian economist and philosopher.

Anselm Jappe (born 3 May 1962, Bonn) is a professor of philosophy, teaching in Italy.

Friedrich "Fritz" Westmeyer (14 January 1873 - 14 November 1917) was a German trade unionist and socialist politician.

Kurt Albert Gerlach (22 August 1886 – 19 October 1922) was a German sociologist.

Paul Lensch (31 March 1873, Potsdam, Province of Brandenburg - 18 November 1926) in Berlin).

Hans-Georg Backhaus (born 1929) is a German Marxian economist and philosopher.

Ingar Solty (born 1979) is a German Marxist writer and journalist.