Anarchist theorists

Roderick Tracy Long (born February 4, 1964) is an American professor of philosophy at Auburn University and libertarian blogger.

Errico Malatesta (14 December 1853 – 22 July 1932) was an Italian anarchist.

Fredy Perlman (August 20, 1934 – July 26, 1985) was a Czech-born, naturalised American author, publisher, professor, and activist.

Murray Bookchin (January 14, 1921 – July 30, 2006) was an American anarchist and libertarian socialist author, orator, historian, and political theorist.

(For a town in the United States, see Volin, South Dakota.) Vsevolod Mikhailovich Eikhenbaum (Russian: Все́волод Миха́йлович Эйхенба́ум, French: Vsevolod Mikhaïlovitch Eichenbaum; 11 August 1882 – 18 September 1945), known in later life as Volin or (the spelling he used himself) Voline (Во́лин), was a leading Russian anarchist who participated in the Russian and Ukrainian Revolutions before being forced into exile by the Bolshevik Party government.

Peter Lamborn Wilson (pseudonym Hakim Bey; born 1945) is an American anarchist author, primarily known for advocating the concept of Temporary Autonomous Zones.

Abraham Guillen (13 March 1913 – 1 August 1993), was a Spanish author, economist and educator.

Émile Armand (pseudonym of Ernest-Lucien Juin Armand; 26 March 1872 – 19 February 1963) was an influential French individualist anarchist at the beginning of the 20th century and also a dedicated free love/polyamory, intentional community, and pacifist/antimilitarist writer, propagandist and activist.

Wendy McElroy (born 1951) is a Canadian individualist anarchist and individualist feminist.

Wolfi Landstreicher is a former nom de plume ("Landstreicher" is the German word for vagabond, tramp) of a contemporary anarchist philosopher involved in theoretical and practical activity.

Gustav Landauer (7 April 1870 – 2 May 1919) was one of the leading theorists on anarchism in Germany in the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century.

Lawrence Jarach is an American anarchist essayist and author of the primer Anarchy 101: Instead of a Meeting.

Geir Arne Olsen (1957 - 1990), better known under his pen-name Leonard Borgzinner, was a Norwegian essayist, self-taught political philosopher, science fiction author, illustrator and fanzine editor.

Randall Amster (born in 1966 in Brooklyn, New York) is an author, activist, and educator in areas including peace, ecology, homelessness, and anarchism.

Layla AbdelRahim is a Canadian comparatist anthropologist and author, whose works on narratives of civilization and wilderness have contributed to the fields of literary and cultural studies, animal studies, philosophy, sociology, anarcho-primitivst thought, epistemology, and critique of civilization and education.

Lucien van der Walt is a South African writer and professor of Sociology.

Kevin Tucker is an anarcho-primitivist writer and speaker who lives in rural Pennsylvania.

Clara Gertrud Wichmann, also known as Clara Meijer-Wichmann (17 August 1885 – 15 February 1922) was a German–Dutch lawyer, writer, anarcho-syndicalist, feminist and atheist.

Colin Ward (14 August 1924 – 11 February 2010) was a British anarchist writer.

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin (born 1947) is an American writer, activist, and black anarchist.

Gary William Chartier (born December 30, 1966) is an American legal scholar who currently serves as Distinguished Professor of Law and Business Ethics and Associate Dean of the Tom and Vi Zapara School of Business at La Sierra University in Riverside, California.

Giovanni Baldelli (1914–1986) was an anarchist theorist, best known for his 1971 work Social Anarchism which defines social anarchism and provides a framework for its introduction.

James Dalton Bell (born 1958) is an American crypto-anarchist who created the idea of arranging for anonymously sponsored assassination payments via the Internet, which he called "assassination politics".

Max Nomad (1881, Buchach, Halychyna, now Ukraine – 1973) is the pseudonym of Austrian author and educator Maximilian Nacht.

Uri Gordon (Hebrew: אורי גורדון‎‎; born August 30, 1976) is an Israeli anarchist theorist and activist.

Robert LeFevre (October 13, 1911 – May 13, 1986) was an American libertarian businessman, radio personality, and primary theorist of autarchism.

Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin (/bəˈkuːnɪn/; Russian: Михаил Александрович Бакунин; IPA: [mʲɪxɐˈil bɐˈkunʲɪn]; 30 May [O.S. 18 May] 1814 – 1 July 1876) was a Russian revolutionary anarchist, and founder of collectivist anarchism.

Gabriel Kuhn (born 1972) is a political writer and translator based in Sweden.

Andrej Grubačić is a US-based anarchist theorist, Balkan federalist, and Anthropology Professor with a Yugoslavian background who has written on cooperation and mutual aid in world history, world systems theory, anarchism and the history of the Balkans.

Dale Pendell is a contemporary author who combines science and poetry in his explications of the relationship between psychoactive compounds and human beings.

Paul Arthur Müller-Lehning (23 October 1899 in Utrecht – 1 January 2000 in Lys-Saint-Georges) was a Dutch author, historian and anarchist.

Marie Ganz (1891 – 1968) was an anarchist labour organizer, social worker, and writer.

István Cs. Bartos (Hungarian: Bartos Cs. István, pronounced [ˈbɒrtoʃ ˈt͡ʃeː ˈiʃtvaːn]; AKA Bartos the Great Human Muck Pit) is a Hungarian performance artist and spoken word performer mostly known for his acts in which he eats dirt, garbage, raw meat, animal cadavers, excrement and drinks his own urine representing the decay of human condition.

Stefan Basil Molyneux (/stɛˈfæn ˈmɑːlɪnjuː/; born September 24, 1966) is an Irish-born Canadian blogger.

(This name uses Eastern Slavic naming customs; the patronymic is Alexeyevich and the family name is Kropotkin.) Prince Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (/kroʊˈpɒtkɪn, krə-/; Russian: Пётр Алексе́евич Кропо́ткин; December 9, 1842 – February 8, 1921) was a Russian activist, scientist, and philosopher, who advocated anarchism.

Karl Hess (May 25, 1923 – April 22, 1994) was an American speechwriter and author.

Charles Malato (1857–1938) was a French anarchist and writer.

Valeriano Orobón Fernández (1901-1936) was a Spanish anarcho-syndicalist theoretician, trade-union activist, translator and poet, who wrote the lyrics of the revolutionary song A Las Barricadas.

Ashanti Alston Omowali is an anarchist activist, speaker, and writer, and former member of the Black Panther Party.

Luigi Galleani was born in the city of Vercelli, Italy, to a family of modest means.

Albert Meltzer (7 January 1920 – 7 May 1996) was an English anarcho-communist activist and writer.

David L. Prychitko (born June 22, 1962) is an American economist of the Austrian School.

Anton Levien Constandse (1899–1983) was a Dutch anarchist author and journalist.

James J. Martin (September 18, 1916 – April 4, 2004) was an American Holocaust denier.

Jan Narveson, OC (born 1936) is professor of philosophy emeritus at the University of Waterloo, in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Jason McQuinn is an American anarchist, founder and co-editor of Alternative Press Review, and founder and former co-editor of the journal Anarchy: A Journal of Desire Armed from 1980 to 1995, when Tad Kepley took it over, and again from 1997 to 2006.