swap_horiz Régis Debray Alternatives

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi, led India’s struggle for independence from British rule. His philos...

India Organizer 20TH Century Nonviolent

9.8 Brilliant

2

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was a pivotal figure in modern history. He led the Turkish nationalist movement that established t...

Turkey 20TH Century Turkish Founder

9.2 Excellent

3

Rosa Parks

Rosa Parks was a pivotal American civil rights activist. Her courageous refusal to yield her bus seat in Montgomery, Ala...

American Activist 20TH Century Nonviolent

9.2 Excellent

4

Bhimrao Ambedkar

Bhimrao Ambedkar was a pivotal 20th-century Indian figure who spearheaded the Dalit civil rights movement. He played a c...

Indian 20TH Century Reformer Social Revolution

9.2 Excellent

5

Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky was a Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist, and Bolshevik leader in the Russian Revolution and...

Russia 20TH Century Marxist Commander

8.6 Great

6

Amílcar Cabral

Amílcar Cabral was an agricultural engineer, anti-colonial theorist, and nationalist leader from Guinea-Bissau and Cape...

20TH Century Theorist Anti Colonial Guinea Bissau

8.4 Great

7

Che Guevara

Ernesto "Che" Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, and author who became a central figure in the 1...

Cuban 20TH Century Marxist Argentina

8.3 Great

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Georgi Plekhanov

Georgi Plekhanov was a Russian philosopher and revolutionary who is widely recognized as the father of Russian Marxism....

Russian Marxist Theorist 19TH 20TH Century

7.7 Good

9

Carlos Fonseca

Carlos Fonseca Amador (1936-1976) was a Nicaraguan revolutionary and one of the principal founders of the Sandinista Nat...

20TH Century Nicaragua Marxist Founder

7.6 Good

10

Karl Liebknecht

Karl Liebknecht was a German socialist, lawyer, and antiwar politician who opposed the First World War from the German l...

Germany Organizer 20TH Century Marxist

7.3 Good

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Nikolai Bukharin

Nikolai Bukharin was a prominent Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Marxist theorist, and high-ranking Soviet politician....

Russian 20TH Century Theorist Martyr

7.2 Good

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Tan Malaka

Tan Malaka was an Indonesian Marxist revolutionary, political thinker, and writer active during the struggle against Dut...

20TH Century Indonesia Theorist Communist

6.9 Fair

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Ali Shariati

Ali Shariati was an Iranian sociologist, lecturer, and political thinker whose work combined discussions of Shi'a Islam...

20TH Century Islamic Iranian Iran

6.9 Fair

14

Carlos Marighella

Carlos Marighella was a Brazilian communist revolutionary, writer, and political organizer active during the twentieth c...

20TH Century Leftist Brazil Marxist

6.8 Fair

15

Miguel Enríquez

Miguel Enríquez (1944-1974) was a Chilean physician, Marxist revolutionary, and one of the founders of the Movimiento de...

20TH Century Marxist Chile Guerrilla

6.7 Fair

16

George Habash

George Habash was a Palestinian physician and Arab nationalist who became a leading figure in the Palestinian revolution...

20TH Century Marxist Palestine Palestinian

6.6 Fair

17

Salvador Cayetano Carpio

Salvador Cayetano Carpio was a Salvadoran labor organizer and revolutionary who became known by the political name Marci...

20TH Century Marxist El Salvador Guerrilla

6.5 Fair

18

Lev Kamenev

Lev Kamenev was a Russian revolutionary and Bolshevik politician who became one of the senior leaders of the Soviet stat...

Russian 20TH Century Marxist Martyr

6.5 Fair

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Manuel Marulanda Vélez

Manuel Marulanda Vélez was a Colombian Marxist guerrilla leader whose real name was Pedro Antonio Marín. Known by the ni...

20TH Century Marxist Colombia Guerrilla

6.4 Fair

20

Jacobo Arenas

Jacobo Arenas was the nom de guerre of Luis Alberto Morantes Jaimes, a Colombian communist organizer and guerrilla leade...

20TH Century Colombian Marxist Co Founder

3.9 Poor