List of socialists

This is the list of self or otherwise proclaimed socialists. Some of these people moved away from socialism, while others espoused other ideologies before turning to socialism. There are many different views of what constitute socialism, and most socialists would claim that some of the people on this list were not true socialists. The people on this list have been nominated because they claimed to be socialists, or were very widely perceived to be by others.

Table of contents

1 Pioneer and utopian socialists 2 Democratic Socialists 3 Communists 4 Dissident Socialists 5 Third World Authoritarians 6 Socialist intellectuals

Pioneer and utopian socialists

François-Noel Babeuf, Louis Blanc, Louis Blanqui, Friedrich Engels, Charles Fourier, Henry George, Morris Hillquit, Ferdinand Lassalle, John Lilburne, Karl Marx, Giuseppe Mazzini, William Morris, Robert Owen, Georgi Plekhanov, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon, George Bernard Shaw

Democratic Socialists

(includes social democrats and Labor / Labour figures)

Iso Abe, Salvador Allende, Clement Attlee, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Ehud Barak, Timoci Bavadra, Kim Beazley, August Bebel, David Ben-Gurion, Hillary Benn, Tony Benn, William Wedgewood Benn, Pierre Bérégovoy, Aneurin Bevan, Ernest Bevin, Tony Blair, Léon Blum, Willy Brandt, Karl-Hjalmar Branting, Ed Broadbent, George Brown, Gordon Brown, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Jim Cairns, James Callaghan, Lorne Calvert, Arthur Calwell, Ingvar Carlsson, Barbara Castle, Mahendra Chaudhry, Ben Chifley, Helen Clark, Major Coldwell, Bettino Craxi, Simon Crean, Edith Cresson, Stafford Cripps, Tony Crosland, Richard Crossman, John Curtin, Massimo D'Alema, Hugh Dalton, Luís Inácio Lula da Silva, John Clynes, Eugene Debs, Joop den Uyl, H. D. Deve Gowda, Donald Dewar, Gary Doer, Takako Doi, Tommy Douglas, Willem Drees, Friedrich Ebert, Tage Erlander, Levi Eshkol, H V Evatt, Laurent Fabius, Karl-August Fagerholm, Zdenek Fierlinger, Michael Foot, Peter Fraser, Hugh Gaitskell, Felipe González, Jules Guesde, António Guterres, Hugo Haase, Tarja Halonen, Per Albin Hansson, Keir Hardie, Bob Hawke, Bill Hayden, Arthur Henderson, Harry Holland, Camille Huysmans, Glenda Jackson, Cheddi Jagan, Thorbjřrn Jagland, Jean Jaurès, Roy Jenkins, Lionel Jospin, Mauno Koivisto, Paul Keating, Neil Kinnock, Norman Kirk, Wim Kok, Bruno Kreisky, Aleksander Kwasniewski, Jack Lang (Australia), Jack Lang (France), David Lange, George Lansbury, Francisco Largo Caballero, Jack Layton, Edmond Leburton, David Lewis, Wilhelm Liebknecht, Paavo Lipponen, Ramsay MacDonald, Alexa McDonough, Audrey McLaughlin, Nelson Mandela, Peter Mandelson, Michael Manley, Julius Martov, Pierre Mauroy, Thabo Mbeki, Golda Meir, Pierre Mendès-France, Alun Micheal, Leszek Miller, Alexandre Millerand, François Mitterrand, Guy Mollet, Mike Moore, Rhodri Morgan, Herbert Morrison, Hermann Müller, Fatos Nano, Walter Nash, Juan Negrín, Jawaharlal Nehru, Erich Ollenhauer, David Owen, Rafael Paasio, Olof Palme, Geoffrey Palmer, Andreas Papandreou, George Papandreou, Shimon Peres, Göran Persson, Sandro Pertini, Yitzhak Rabin, Bob Rae, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Johannes Rau, John Reid, Karl Renner, Michel Rocard, Roy Romanow, Bernie Sanders, Giuseppe Saragat, Michael Savage, Philipp Scheidemann, Willem Schermerhorn, Helmut Schmidt, Gerhard Schröder, Kurt Schumacher, James Scullin, Costas Simitis, John Smith, Phillip Snowden, Mario Soares, Kalevi Sorsa, Paul-Henri Spaak, Thorvald Stauning, Jens Stoltenberg, Väinö Tanner, Norman Thomas, Achille Van Acker, John Christian Watson, John Wheatley, Gough Whitlam, Shirley Williams, Harold Wilson, James Woodsworth

Communists

(members of orthodox Communist parties)

D. N. Aidit, Ramiz Alia, Yuri Andropov, Kanson Arahata, Jyoti Basu, Lavrenty Beria, Enrico Berlinguer, Boleslaw Bierut, Leonid Brezhnev, Earl Browder, Josip Broz Tito, Tim Buck, Nikolai Bukharin, Nikolay Bulganin, Fidel Castro, Nicolae Ceausescu, Oldrich Cerník, Konstantin Chernenko, Vulko Chervenkov, Józef Cyrankiewicz, S. A. Dange, Angela Davis, Deng Xiaoping, Georgi Dimitrov, Do Muoi, Alexander Dubcek, Jacques Duclos, Tetzuo Fuwa, William Gallacher, Erno Gero, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Edward Gierek, Wladyslaw Gomulka, Klement Gottwald, Andrey Gromyko, Otto Grotewohl, Che Guevara, Gus Hall, Denis Healey, Ho Chi Minh, Erich Honecker, Enver Hoxha, Hu Jintao, Hu Yaobang, Hua Guofeng, Gustáv Husák, Dolores Ibarruri, Ieng Sary, Piotr Jaroszewicz, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Jiang Qing, Jiang Zemin, Janos Kadar, Lazar Kaganovich, Mikhail Kalinin, Lev Kamenev, Stanislaw Kania, Nikita Khrushchev, Kim Il-Sung, Kim Jong-Il, Alexandra Kollontai, Aleksey Kosygin, Egon Krenz, Bela Kun, Le Duan, Le Kha Phieu, Vladimir Lenin, Li Dazhao, Li Peng, Karl Liebknecht, Lin Biao, Liu Shaoqi, Luigi Longo, Rosa Luxemburg, Georgy Malenkov, Georges Marchais, Ion Gheorghe Maurer, Anastas Mikoyan, Kenji Miyamoto, Petur Mladenov, Mao Zedong, Slobodan Milosevic, Hans Modrow, Vyacheslav Molotov, Imre Nagy, Nguyen Van Linh, Nong Duc Manh, Antonín Novotný, Edward Ochab, Rajani Palme Dutt, Pham Van Dong, Wilhelm Pieck, Nikolay Podgorny, Pol Pot, Harry Pollitt, Yevgeny Preobrazhensky, Karl Radek, Matyas Rakosi, Aleksey Rykov, Nikolai Ryzhkov, Mehmet Shehu, Eduard Shevardnadze, Kazuo Shii, Horst Sindermann, Viliam Siroký, Marian Spychalski, Joseph Stalin, Willi Stoph, Lubomír Strougal, Mikhail Suslov, Ludvík Svoboda, Ernst Thälmann, Maurice Thorez, Nikolai Tikhonov, Stanko Todorov, Palmiro Togliatti, Truong Chinh, Walter Ulbricht, Vo Van Kiet, Kliment Voroshilov, Antonín Zápotocký, Zhao Ziyang, Todor Zhivkov, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Grigori Zinoviev

Dissident Socialists

(anarchists, Trotskyists, etc)

Mikhail Bakunin, Olivier Besancenot, James P. Cannon, Tony Cliff, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Daniel DeLeon, Hal Draper, Paul Foot, Emma Goldman, Ted Grant, Gerry Healy, Arlette Laguiller, Pierre Lambert, Ernest Mandel, Michel Raptis, Vanessa Redgrave, Arthur Scargill, Max Shachtman, Tommy Sheridan, Leon Trotsky, David Widgery

Third World Authoritarians

Hafizullah Amin, Ahmed Ben Bella, Houari Boumedienne, José Eduardo dos Santos, Babrak Karmal, Mathieu Kérékou, Samora Machel, Mengistu Haile Mariam, Robert Mugabe, Mohammad Najibullah, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Ne Win, Agostinho Neto, Marien Ngouabi, Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere, Daniel Ortega, Leopold Senghor, Nur Mohammad Taraki, Ahmed Sékou Touré

Socialist intellectuals

(who may well also have been members of parties, but are best known as intellectuals)

Theodor Adorno, Louis Althusser, Walter Benjamin, J. D. Bernal, Noam Chomsky, G. D. H. Cole, Milovan Djilas, W. E. B. Du Bois, Albert Einstein, Antonio Gramsci, Jürgen Habermas, J. B. S. Haldane, Eric Hobsbawm, Max Horkheimer, Takuboku Ishikawa, C. L. R. James, Karl Kautsky, Harold Laski, Georg Lukács, Herbert Marcuse, Pablo Neruda, Alfred Orage, George Orwell, Anton Pannekoek, John Reed, Victor Serge, E. P. Thompson, Beatrice Webb, Sidney Webb, H. G. Wells, Raymond Williams