Authors

The major theorists and leaders of Marxism, in order of birth, with every edition of their work held in the catalogue across all publishers.

Major theorists and leaders

• Karl Marx

  German · 1818–1883

  4,629 books (4,191 verified)

• Friedrich Engels

  German · 1820–1895

  3,340 books (3,023 verified)

• Wilhelm Liebknecht

  German · 1826–1900

  97 books (88 verified)

• August Bebel

  German · 1840–1913

  217 books (210 verified)

• Paul Lafargue

  French · 1842–1911

  128 books (119 verified)

• Antonio Labriola

  Italian · 1843–1904

  47 books (44 verified)

• Franz Mehring

  German · 1846–1919

  293 books (276 verified)

• Eduard Bernstein

  German · 1850–1932

  160 books (147 verified)

• Daniel De Leon

  American · 1852–1914

  164 books (148 verified)

• Karl Kautsky

  Czech-Austrian · 1854–1938

  423 books (393 verified)

• Georgi Plekhanov

  Russian · 1856–1918

  281 books (247 verified)

• Clara Zetkin

  German · 1857–1933

  137 books (127 verified)

• James Connolly

  Irish · 1868–1916

  37 books (37 verified)

• Vladimir Lenin

  Russian · 1870–1924

  5,017 books (4,478 verified)

• Karl Liebknecht

  German · 1871–1919

  63 books (63 verified)

• Rosa Luxemburg

  Polish-German · 1871–1919

  322 books (297 verified)

• Alexandra Kollontai

  Russian · 1872–1952

  53 books (50 verified)

• Alexander Bogdanov

  Russian · 1873–1928

  46 books (41 verified)

• Joseph Stalin

  Georgian / Soviet · 1878–1953

  1,296 books (1,147 verified)

• Chen Duxiu

  Chinese · 1879–1942

  5 books (5 verified)

• Leon Trotsky

  Russian · 1879–1940

  586 books (520 verified)

• Georgi Dimitrov

  Bulgarian · 1882–1949

  326 books (309 verified)

• György Lukács

  Hungarian · 1885–1971

  315 books (294 verified)

• Karl Korsch

  German · 1886–1961

  30 books (24 verified)

• M. N. Roy

  Indian · 1887–1954

  7 books (7 verified)

• Nikolai Bukharin

  Russian · 1888–1938

  211 books (206 verified)

• Li Dazhao

  Chinese · 1889–1927

  24 books (24 verified)

• Ho Chi Minh

  Vietnamese · 1890–1969

  255 books (232 verified)

• Antonio Gramsci

  Italian · 1891–1937

  213 books (186 verified)

• Josip Broz Tito

  Yugoslav · 1892–1980

  207 books (192 verified)

• Mao Zedong

  Chinese · 1893–1976

  1,320 books (1,285 verified)

• José Carlos Mariátegui

  Peruvian · 1894–1930

  151 books (151 verified)

• Tan Malaka

  Indonesian · 1897–1949

  1 book (1 verified)

• Harry Haywood

  American · 1898–1985

  7 books (7 verified)

• Herbert Marcuse

  German-American · 1898–1979

  22 books (16 verified)

• Liu Shaoqi

  Chinese · 1898–1969

  131 books (127 verified)

• Zhou Enlai

  Chinese · 1898–1976

  117 books (114 verified)

• C. L. R. James

  Trinidadian · 1901–1989

  18 books (10 verified)

• Henri Lefebvre

  French · 1901–1991

  66 books (39 verified)

• Deng Xiaoping

  Chinese · 1904–1997

  90 books (87 verified)

• Lê Duẩn

  Vietnamese · 1907–1986

  188 books (177 verified)

• Trường Chinh

  Vietnamese · 1907–1988

  84 books (70 verified)

• Enver Hoxha

  Albanian · 1908–1985

  318 books (305 verified)

• Kwame Nkrumah

  Ghanaian · 1909–1972

  102 books (92 verified)

• Paul A. Baran

  American · 1909–1964

  26 books (22 verified)

• Paul Sweezy

  American · 1910–2004

  66 books (62 verified)

• Võ Nguyên Giáp

  Vietnamese · 1911–2013

  122 books (114 verified)

• Kim Il Sung

  Korean · 1912–1994

  755 books (746 verified)

• Charu Majumdar

  Indian · 1918–1972

  2 books (1 verified)

• Louis Althusser

  French · 1918–1990

  154 books (119 verified)

• Agostinho Neto

  Angolan · 1922–1979

  24 books (22 verified)

• Ernest Mandel

  Belgian · 1923–1995

  146 books (134 verified)

• Amílcar Cabral

  Bissau-Guinean / Cape Verdean · 1924–1973

  28 books (27 verified)

• Fidel Castro

  Cuban · 1926–2016

  588 books (561 verified)

• George Habash

  Palestinian · 1926–2008

  1 book (1 verified)

• Ernesto Che Guevara

  Argentine / Cuban · 1928–1967

  201 books (194 verified)

• Immanuel Wallerstein

  American · 1930–2019

  54 books (35 verified)

• Samir Amin

  Egyptian · 1931–2018

  124 books (108 verified)

• Michael Parenti

  American · 1933–

  10 books (9 verified)

• Samora Machel

  Mozambican · 1933–1986

  29 books (28 verified)

• David Harvey

  British · 1935–

  33 books (29 verified)

• Ghassan Kanafani

  Palestinian · 1936–1972

  9 books (8 verified)

• Giovanni Arrighi

  Italian · 1937–2009

  27 books (22 verified)

• Jose Maria Sison

  Filipino · 1939–2022

  69 books (62 verified)

• Domenico Losurdo

  Italian · 1941–2018

  60 books (57 verified)

• Walter Rodney

  Guyanese · 1942–1980

  30 books (29 verified)

• Angela Davis

  American · 1944–

  36 books (28 verified)

• Thomas Sankara

  Burkinabè · 1949–1987

  16 books (16 verified)