Political Theorist

Niccolò Machiavelli

Philosophy

High Renaissance

1449–1527

"A prince who is not wise himself will never take good advice."

🇩🇪Rosa Luxemburg

Social Activism

1871–1919

"Historically, the errors committed by a truly revolutionary movement are infinitely more fruitful than the infallibility of the cleverest Central Committee."

Hannah Arendt

Philosophy

phenomenology

1906–1975

"If a given science accidentally reached its goal, this would by no means stop the workers in the field, who would be driven past their goal by the sheer momentum of the illusion of unlimited progress."

Herbert Marcuse

Philosophy

Frankfurt School

1898–1979

"German idealism rescued philosophy from the attack of British empiricism, and the struggle between the two became not merely a clash of different philosophical school, but a struggle for philosophy as such. P. 16"

Mao Zedong

Politics

Marxism

1893–1976

"Strategically we should despise all our enemies, while tactically we should take them all seriously."

🇩🇪Friedrich Engels

Philosophy

Marxism

1796–1860

"There have always been poor and working classes; and the working class have mostly been poor. But there have not always been workers and poor people living under conditions as they are today."

Joseph Priestley

Science

1733–1804

"From the fame opinion of a soul distinct from the body came the practice of praying, first for the dead, and then to them with a long train of other absurd opinions, and superstitious practices."

🇬🇧John Milbank

Religion

b. 1952

"Perhaps the most surprise, the most shock, should arise when what is said is really most orthodox and ancient, since the tradition is so rarely re-performed in practice today."

🇺🇸Mark Satin

Politics

b. 1946

"Mark Satin Papers, 1967–2009." In the Joseph A. Labadie Collection at Hatcher Library, University of Michigan. Correspondence, clippings, personal memoir, and other materials. Retrieved February 18, 2016."

🇬🇧Harold Laski

Literature

1893–1950

"Who does not know Tocqueville cannot understand liberalism. A case of unanswerable power could, I think, be made out for the view that he and Lord Acton were the essential liberals of the nineteenth century."

🇬🇧Choudhry Rahmat Ali

Social Activism

1897–1951

"Kamran, Tahir , "Choudhary Rahmat Ali and his Political Imagination: Pak Plan and the Continent of Dinia", in Ali Usman Qasmi; Megan Eaton Robb , Muslims against the Muslim League, Cambridge University Press, pp. 82–108"

🇺🇸William Graham Sumner

Science

1840–1910

"What we prepare for is what we shall get."

🇺🇸Jane Addams

Social Activism

socialism

1860–1935

"must be grounded in a philosophy whose foundation is on the solidarity of the human race, a philosophy which will not waver when the race happens to be represented by a drunken woman or an idiot boy."

Cicero

Politics

academic skepticism

-106–-43

"M: Nam efficit hoc philosophia: medetur animis, inanes sollicitudines detrahit, cupiditatibus liberat, pellit timores."

🇺🇸Curtis Yarvin

Philosophy

Enlightenment

b. 1973

"Mencius Moldbug: Unqualified Reservations—chronological bibliography"

🇺🇸Kevin Carson

Religion

b. 1963

"The manufacture of foreign crisis and war hysteria has been used since the beginning of history to suppress threats to class rule."

🇺🇸Anna J. Cooper

Literature

1858–1964

"I am my Sister's keeper!" should be the hearty response of every man and woman of the race, and this conviction should purify and exalt the narrow, selfish and petty personal aims of life into a noble and sacred purpose."

🇺🇸Jodi Dean

Science

b. 1962

"Jodi Dean . "The Limits of the Web in an Age of Communicative Capitalism". Public lecture in Dublin in June 2013."