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

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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

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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

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Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu was a prominent 20th-century Anglican archbishop and South African revolutionary. His lifelong dedication t...

20TH Century Nonviolent Religious South African

9.2 Excellent

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Giap (Võ Nguyên Giáp)

Võ Nguyên Giáp was a prominent 20th-century Vietnamese military strategist and revolutionary leader. He directed the Vie...

Military 20TH Century Vietnamese Anti Colonial

9.2 Excellent

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Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky was a Russian revolutionary who led the Red Army after 1917, opposed Stalin from exile, and was assassinate...

Russia 20TH Century Marxist Commander

8.6 Great

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Amílcar Cabral

Amílcar Cabral was a Guinea-Bissauan and Cape Verdean nationalist who founded the PAIGC in 1956 and led the struggle aga...

20TH Century Theorist Anti Colonial Guinea Bissau

8.4 Great

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Che Guevara

Che Guevara was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary who helped lead Cuba's 1959 revolution and later fought in Congo and...

Cuban 20TH Century Marxist Argentina

8.3 Great

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Georgi Plekhanov

Russian philosopher Georgi Plekhanov is recognized as the father of Russian Marxism, co-founding the Emancipation of Lab...

Russian Marxist Theorist 19TH 20TH Century

7.7 Good

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Carlos Fonseca

Carlos Fonseca was a Nicaraguan revolutionary who co-founded the Sandinista National Liberation Front in 1961 against th...

20TH Century Nicaragua Marxist Founder

7.6 Good

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Karl Liebknecht

Karl Liebknecht was a German socialist who opposed World War I, co-founded the Spartacus League, and was killed after th...

Germany Organizer 20TH Century Marxist

7.3 Good

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Nikolai Bukharin

Nikolai Bukharin was a prominent Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician who was executed during Stalin's...

Russian 20TH Century Theorist Martyr

7.2 Good

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Tan Malaka

Tan Malaka was an Indonesian Marxist revolutionary whose writings shaped anti-colonial thought and who was killed during...

20TH Century Indonesia Theorist Communist

6.9 Fair

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Ali Shariati

Ali Shariati was an Iranian sociologist and political thinker whose lectures in the 1960s and 1970s influenced revolutio...

20TH Century Islamic Iranian Iran

6.9 Fair

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Carlos Marighella

Carlos Marighella was a Brazilian communist guerrilla and author of the 1969 Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla, killed...

20TH Century Leftist Brazil Marxist

6.8 Fair

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Miguel Enríquez

Miguel Enríquez was a Chilean physician and co-founder of the MIR, killed in a 1974 firefight with Pinochet's security f...

20TH Century Marxist Chile Guerrilla

6.7 Fair

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George Habash

George Habash was a Palestinian physician and Arab nationalist who founded the Popular Front for the Liberation of Pales...

20TH Century Marxist Palestine Palestinian

6.6 Fair

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Salvador Cayetano Carpio

Salvador Cayetano Carpio was a Salvadoran labor leader who founded the FPL guerrilla organization in 1970, later part of...

20TH Century Marxist El Salvador Guerrilla

6.5 Fair

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Lev Kamenev

Russian Bolshevik leader who served as Chairman of the Moscow Soviet and was a close associate of Lenin before being exe...

Russian 20TH Century Marxist Martyr

6.5 Fair

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Manuel Marulanda Vélez

Manuel Marulanda Vélez was the Colombian guerrilla known as Tirofijo, a founder and longtime commander of FARC from its...

20TH Century Marxist Colombia Guerrilla

6.4 Fair