People of the Revolution and the USSR
- Ernst Bloch Ernst Bloch Philosopher of the not-yet: thinker of concrete utopia and human emancipation in The Principle of Hope
- Herbert Marcuse Herbert Marcuse Frankfurt School philosopher and the pre-eminent theorist of the 1960s New Left
- Fred Oelßner Fred Oelßner Economist and the SED’s chief ideologue until 1958, when he was expelled from the Politburo in the Schirdewan affair
- George F. Kennan George F. Kennan The American diplomat and historian whose 1946 Long Telegram and X article laid the intellectual foundations of containment
- Jan Patočka Jan Patočka A phenomenologist who turned care for truth into civic action
- István Bibó Bibó István A political thinker who analyzed democracy and the crises of states
- Louis Pierre Althusser Louis Althusser The thinker who found a new continent in Marx: founder of structural Marxism
- Radovan Richta Radovan Richta Czech Marxist philosopher who coined the phrase "socialism with a human face"
- Frantz Fanon Frantz Fanon The psychiatrist who diagnosed colonialism itself as the disease
- Walter Rodney Walter Rodney Guyanese Marxist historian who demonstrated how Europe underdeveloped Africa, scholar-activist of the Pan-African revolution
- Angela Davis Angela Davis Marxist feminist philosopher who theorised the prison-industrial complex, co-founder of Critical Resistance