honestly it’s mostly the fact that I want them as refs for my own personal worldbuilding and character writing. I don’t trust Google for this so I’m outsourcing the query here.
I want to cut around the psychoanalysis industrial complex that seems to plague that genre of work. I’d appreciate sources for any notable socialist, but there are a few I’m going to name specifically because I’m either looking into them specifically or anticipate getting mired in doing so later:
- Marx
- Engels
- Lenin
- Stalin
- Mao
- Rosa
- Che
- Fidel
- Sankara
- Gramsci
- Kim Il-Sung
- Fred Hampton
- Malcolm X
- Ho Chi Minh
- Trotsky
Some of these I have a general idea of, but it can’t hurt to clear up the details. I’d also appreciate any socialist-adjacent (e.g. whatever John Brown was doing) figures as well.
I don’t have a good source on hand, but note that there was scandal in the past few years where Haley’s transcripts with Malcom X did not match what he wrote. Most specifically, he played up animosity between Malcom and MLK.