Key Works and Authors
- the writings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: especially the earlier writings such as The 1844 Manuscripts, The German Ideology and "Theses on Feuerbach," but also the Grundrisse, Capital and other works inspired
- V.I. Lenin
- Lev Trotsky
- Rosa Luxemburg
- Karl Korsch
- Georg Lukács: History and Class Consciousness developed the theory of ideology to include a more complex model of class consciousness
- Antonio Gramsci
- Ernst Bloch
- The Frankfurt School, esp. Theodor Adorno, Herbert Marcuse and Jürgen Habermas
- Walter Benjamin
- Bertolt Brecht
- Socialisme ou Barbarie (Cornelius Castoriadis, Claude Lefort, etc.)
- Louis Althusser and his students (e.g. Étienne Balibar, Alain Badiou, Jacques Rancière, Pierre Macherey)
- Praxis school
- Situationist International
- Fredric Jameson
- Antonio Negri and autonomist Marxism
- Helmut Reichelt
- Slavoj Žižek
- Mao Zedong
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