• Rosa Luxemburg

    Rosa Luxemburg facts for kids

    Rosa Luxemburg (born Rozalia Luksenburg; 5 March 1871 – 15 January 1919) was an important thinker and activist. She was a socialist and Marxist philosopher from Poland. She also worked hard for peace and against war.

  • Samir Amin

    Samir Amin facts for kids

    Samir Amin is known for his ideas about how the world economy works. He also introduced the term Eurocentrism in 1988. Many people see him as a leader in Dependency Theory.

  • German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel facts for kids

    Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (born August 27, 1770—died November 14, 1831) was an important German philosopher. He is known as one of the main thinkers in German idealism and a key person in modern Western philosophy.

  • Friedrich Engels

    Friedrich Engels facts for kids

    Engels is best known for working with Karl Marx to create what is now called Marxism.

  • Che Guevara

    Che Guevara facts for kids

    Ernesto “Che” Guevara (born 14 June 1928 – died 9 October 1967) was an Argentine revolutionary. He was a very important leader in the Cuban Revolution. His famous picture has become a symbol of rebellion around the world.

  • Ellen Meiksins Wood (April 12, 1942 – January 14, 2016)

    Ellen Meiksins Wood facts for kids

    Ellen Meiksins Wood (April 12, 1942–January 14, 2016) was an important American-Canadian thinker and historian.

  • John Bellamy Foster

    John Bellamy Foster facts for kids

    John Foster’s early research looked at how money and power work. He studied how big companies grow and affect the economy. His first book, The Theory of Monopoly Capitalism, explored these ideas.

  • Harry Magdoff

    Harry Magdoff facts for kids

    When he was 15, in 1929, Harry found a book by Karl Marx in a used-book store. He said reading it “blew his mind.”

  • Paul M. Sweezy and Harry Magdoff

    Paul Sweezy facts for kids

    Paul Sweezy helped start and edit the well-known magazine Monthly Review. People remember him most for his ideas in economics. He was one of the top thinkers in Marxian economics in the second half of the 20th century.

  • György Bernát Löwinger

    György Lukács facts for kids

    This page is about the philosopher. The native form of this personal name is Lukács György.