Flashcards: Left communists

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 Hoelz (14 October 1889 - 15 September 1933) was a German Communist, most known for his role as a 'Communist Bandit' in the Vogtland region.

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.

Victor Serge (French: [viktɔʁ sɛʁʒ]), born Victor Lvovich Kibalchich (Russian: Ви́ктор Льво́вич Киба́льчич; December 30, 1890 – November 17, 1947), was a Russian revolutionary and writer.

Lev "Leo" Jogiches (Russian: Лев "Лео" Йогихес; "yū-gē'-khěs"; 1867 – 1919), also commonly known by the party name Jan Tyszka (Russian: Ян Тышка), was a Marxist revolutionary active in Lithuania, Poland, and Germany.

Andrés Nin Pérez (Catalan pronunciation: [ənˈdɾe.u ˈnin i ˈpeɾes] (February 4, 1892 – June 20, 1937), also known as Andreu Nin, was a Spanish communist politician.

Herman Gorter (26 November 1864, Wormerveer – 15 September 1927, Brussels) was a Dutch poet and socialist.

Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay (September 15, 1889 – May 22, 1948) was a Jamaican-American writer and poet, who was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance.

Marck Chirik (May 13, 1907 – December 20, 1990), also known as Marc Laverne or simply MC, was a communist revolutionary and one of the founding militants of the International Communist Current.

Henriette Goverdine Anna Roland Holst-van der Schalk (24 December 1869, Noordwijk – 21 November 1952, Amsterdam) was a Dutch poet and socialist.

Gérard Genette (born 1930) is a French literary theorist, associated in particular with the structuralist movement and such figures as Roland Barthes and Claude Lévi-Strauss, from whom he adapted the concept of bricolage.

Amadeo Bordiga (13 June 1889 – 23 July 1970) was an Italian Marxist, a contributor to Communist theory, the founder of the Communist Party of Italy, a leader of the Communist International and, after World War II, a leading figure of the International Communist Party.

Maximilien Rubel (10 October 1905 in Chernivtsi – 28 February 1996 in Paris) was a famous "Marxist" historian and council communist.

David Joseph Wijnkoop (born 11 March 1876 in Amsterdam – died 7 May 1941 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch communist leader in the first half of the twentieth century.

Marinus (Rinus) van der Lubbe (13 January 1909 – 10 January 1934) was a Dutch council communist convicted of, and executed for, setting fire to the German Reichstag building on 27 February 1933, an event known as the Reichstag fire.

Cornelius Castoriadis (French: [kastɔʁjadis]; Greek: Κορνήλιος Καστοριάδης [kastoriˈaðis]; March 11, 1922 ke December 26, 1997) was a Greek-French philosopher, social critic, economist, psychoanalyst, author of The Imaginary Institution of Society, and co-founder of the Socialisme ou Barbarie group.

Jacques Camatte is a French writer who once was a Marxist theoretician and member of the International Communist Party, a primarily Italian left communist organisation under the influence of Amadeo Bordiga, which denounced the USSR as capitalist and aimed to rebuild a "true" Leninism.

Gilles Dauvé (pen name Jean Barrot; born 1947) is a French political theorist, school teacher, and translator associated with left communism and the contemporary tendency of communization.

Claude Lefort (French: [ləfɔʁ]; 21 April 1924, Paris – 3 October 2010, Paris) was a French philosopher and activist.

Guy Louis Debord (French: [gi dəbɔʁ]; December 28, 1931 – November 30, 1994) was a French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker, member of the Letterist International, founder of a Letterist faction, and founding member of the Situationist International (SI).

Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst (5 May 1882 – 27 September 1960) was an English campaigner for the suffragette movement in the United Kingdom.

William Gallacher (25 December 1881 – 12 August 1965) was a Scottish trade unionist, activist and communist.

Vincent Descombes (born 1943) is a French philosopher.

Ante Ciliga (20 February 1898 - 21 October 1992) was a Croatian politician, writer and publisher.

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

Paul Mattick, Sr.

Karl Roche (1862–1931) was a German syndicalist and left communist trade unionist.

Kathleen Mary 'Kay' Beauchamp (1899–1992) was a leading light in the Communist Party of Great Britain in the 1920s.

Grandizo Munis (Torreón, Mexico, 18 April 1912 – Paris, 4 February 1989) was a Spanish politician.

Bruno Fortichiari (8 February 1892 – 4 January 1981) was an Italian politician and communist revolutionary.

Richard Turner (25 September 1941, in Stellenbosch – 8 January 1978, in Durban), known as Rick Turner, was a South African academic and anti-apartheid activist who was very probably assassinated by the apartheid state in 1978.

Onorato Damen (4 December 1893 – 14 October 1979), was an Italian left communist revolutionary who was first active in the Communist Party of Italy.

Constance 'Joan' Beauchamp (1 Nov 1890–1964) was a prominent anti-World War I campaigner, suffragette and co-founder of the Communist Party of Great Britain.

Rafael Font Farran ( 26 May 1912, Sitges, Barcelona Province, Spain - 19 November 2003 in Auxerre Burgundy, France ) was a Spanish politician and journalist.