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