All names in this
Index are by birth-certificate, which may not be the name by which you know
them.
How to distinguish a "responder to bullying and coercion" from a "political ideologue"? Most of the answer to that question can be found in my introduction to the former of these two pages: anyone who refuses to be complicitous, whether actively or passively, and thereby to collaborate in their own victimhood. But that only gets them on that list; to be on this one they need to have done more, active engagement like Simone Veil, or simply (simply? highly complexly!) at the intellectual level: seeking to understand why the world is run by the bullies and the coercers, and what might be done to change that, even coming up with schemes and ploys and plans. Sometimes just dreaming, sometimes just idealistic theory, sometimes journalism, sometimes tracts (and all too often transformed into action and forced upon the passively complicitous...)
Isaiah Berlin (born
June 6 1909; died November 5 1997): commenting on “Dr Zhivago” on Oct 23; his
website here
Bantu Steve Biko: (born into Black Consciousness on December 18
1946): mentioned on May 9, May
16, June 28 and July
10; murdered
on Sept 12; the
Foundation named for him here; the hospital named for him here
Simón José Antonio de la
Santísima Trinidad de Bolívar y Palacios:
(born July 24 1783; died December 17 1830): ”El Libertador” in London on June 24; full story on July 5; compared with El Cid on July
10; negatively role-modelling on July
23; named president of Peru on Sept
10;
has a country named for him on Nov 3 and
here; his UNESCO prize here
Lev ben David Bronstein (Leon Trotsky): born November 7
1879; expelled from Russia on Jan 31; assassinated in Mexico
on Aug
20 1940;
with Victor Serge on Feb 21; quoted on Sept 1; mentioned on June 15, Aug 26, Sept 13 and Oct 15; the collected
writings here
Earl Russell Browder (born May 20 1891; died June 27, 1973): passionately
pro-Communist on June 28. The
Marxist perspective here; possibly
the other side here
Napoleone di Buonaparte (Napoléon
Bonaparte, Napolloron on Feb
3): fought at Rivoli on Jan
15; Feb 3 and Feb
9 have the
Paris Sanhredrin; died on May 5; Marseillaise on May 10; Waterloo on June
18; key to Simón
Bolívar on June 24; declared consul for life on Aug 2; banned as a pig-name on August 21; turned down by La Pérouse on August
23; retreated
from Moscow on Oct 19; crowned himself emperor on Dec 2; divorced Joséphine on Dec
16;
influenced by Charlemagne’s
coronation on Dec 25. Also mentioned on
March 15, April
1, April 16, April
20, April 27, Aug
10 and 29, Sept
29, Dec 20; referenced on Jan
5, April 18, June
22, July 23 and Sept 1 [also in
purple cloaks]; not himself the creator of "The Edicts of Tolerance", but unquestionably the man who brought them to relative fruition; click here to read the first part, the 1787 "Edict of Versailles"; here for the second part, "The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen" (which unfortunately forgot to include Women as well)
Edmund Burke (born
January 12 1729; died July 9 1797): apparently he was the father of Conservatism, so maybe he should be a
GER! June 13 and Oct 2; bio and books here; more writings and speeches here
Friedrich Engels (born Nov 28 1820; died August 5
1895): “The Communist Manifesto” published on Feb 26; mentioned on April 5 and Nov 6; Lenin’s bio here; all the books here and here; his plaque in Primrose Hill here
Farinace, though I think it should be spelled Farinacci, as in Prospero Farinacci (born November 1 1554; died December 31 1618), or Farinaccius in the Latin pen-name on his “Praxis et Theorica Criminalis” of 1616”,
the work that made him famous. His bio here; the recently rediscovered portrait of him by Caravaggio can be found here; the letter from Victor Hugo can be found here. He goes with Beccaria on Oct 18
Paul-Michel Foucault (born October 15 1926; died
June 25 1984) is not mentioned on Sept 18, but needs to be to avoid confusion (I leave you to
deconstruct that statement for yourself, but as a hint, see the other Foucault on the E,M&C2 page, and
if you are truly mad, try here): this Foucault can be found here and here
Benjamin Franklin (aka Silence Dogood,
Polly Baker, and Richard Saunders): (born January 17 1706; died 17 April 1790): among the
Pseudonyms on Feb 8; the college named for him at
Yale here; his house in London here; his historical society here; his role in writing the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution here
Joseph Marie Garibaldi: (born
July 4 1807; died June 2 1882): “the living honour of Italy” on Oct 18; his portrait here; his bio here; his biscuit factory here – that is a serious link that you should look at; the recipe for his cocktail is less
so, but here anyway
William Godwin (born March
3 1756; died April 7 1836): one of Joseph Johnson's circle of radical thinkers on April 27; bio here and here; his podcast library here
Emma Goldman (born June 27 1869; died May 14 1940): making George Padmore uncomfortable on June 28; my full piece about her is in “A Journey In Time”, though I am intrigued to find
her so enthusiastically received by Peggy Guggenheim, here; her appearance in the Marxist
Archive rather less surprising, here, and her writings libraried here ditto
Marie-Olympe de Gouges; originally Marie
Gouze (born May 7 1748; guillotined on Nov
3 1793 for daring to authoress the “Declaration of the Rights of
Woman and of the Female Citizen” (she is also on the Napoleonic
Era page of "Woman-Blindness");
bio here and here
David Grün (David ben Gurion) (born Oct
16 1886; died December 1 1973): Israel's first Prime Minister: mentioned Feb 21; bio here; his house in Tel Aviv here, the more interesting one at Sde Boker here
Elizabeth Gurney (Fry) (born May 21 1780; died October 12 1845): her website here; "The Angel of
Prisons" here
Dashiell
Hammett (born May 27 1894; died January 10 1961): long-time lover of Lillian Hellman, but left in amber on June 20; bio here; Sam Spade fan-club here; some of his
more serious writings here
Benjamin Ze’ev (Theodor) Herzl (born May 2 1860;
died July 3 1904): 1st Zionist Congress on Aug
29;
mentioned on Jan 7; referenced on Feb 3 and July
14; his Institute here
Simone Annie Liline Jacob (Veil): (born July 13 1927; died June 30 2017): European overview here; more detailed bio here; her “pact” website here; her Centre here
Thomas Jefferson (born
April 13 1743; died July 4 1826): re-elected US President with George
Clinton as his VP on Dec 5; bio here; best
remembered for his part in writing the Declaration of Independence
Emanuel (Immanuel) Kant “Das Ding an Sich” on Feb 22; Der Mann in sich on April 22 (died February 12 1804); intro here; the books here
John Maynard Keynes (born June 5
1883; died April 21 1946): is economics philosophy or science? Generally
studied in partnership with politics, and if with philosophy then usually
political philosophy, so I am placing him on this page; bio and theories here; his website here
Victor Lvovich Kibalchich (Victor Serge, В.Л. Кибальчич): (born December 30 1890; died November 17
1947): with Trotsky in Mexico on Aug 20; referenced on Jan 15 and Nov 22; the politics here; the memoir here
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard: (born May 5 1813; died November 11 1855): quoted
on Jan 14; employing pseudonyms on
Feb 8; born on May 5; compared with Schopenhauer on April
22; his website here
Pëtr, or sometimes Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (born December 9 1842; died February 8 1921): giving
Victor Serge the title for his memoir on Aug 20; biologist view here; Marxist view here
Johannes Paulus Kruger born Oct 10 1825;
died July 14 1904): and I would rather banish him to the GER page, but that is like
forgiving-by-forgetting or tearing down statues: we actually need to keep these
people in front of us, and remind the next generations what they did by
confronting it, or repetition in some varied form will be inevitable (it
probably is anyway, but at least this way we tried): the view from the homeland
here
Claire-Rose Lacombe (Red Rose) (born March 4 1765-date of death unknown) Républicaine
Révolutionnaire on Aug 10 [she is also on the Napoleonic
Era page of “Woman-Blindness”]: bio here and here
Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine (born Oct 21 1790; died February 28 1869): and you might have expected find him on the
page of the poets, but... here because of the Manifesto; here for the bio and the politics; here for Engels’ critique of it
Stephen Langton:
Archbishop of Canterbury (born circa 1150; died
July 9 1228): a key figure in the imposition of Magna Carta on June 15 - try here, though I
suspect it will be blue-corner propaganda; otherwise here; another who I would like to place on the GER list, because I regard Magna Carta as one of the most disgusting documents ever created by wannabe slave-owners and despots, whilst pretending to be doing it in the name of freedom; but alas it has been the political ideology of much of the western world for the last thousand years, and so it must be on this page
John Locke: “the father of liberalism”, born Aug 29 1632 (died 28 October 1704): mentioned
on Jan 18; but unfortunately both of
those entries are tabula rasa; his Institute here
Abraham Lincoln (born February 12 1809; assassinated
April 15 1865):
advised by Frederick Douglass on Feb 9; see March
15 for an eye-witness account of his death, though the death itself
can be found on April 14; turned into
a military brigade on July 22, and
into a county on Nov 23; issued the
Emancipation Proclamation on Sept 22
(see also Dec 17), and the Gettysburg
Address on Nov 19; mentioned on Feb 14; his website here; his obsessed acolytes here
Ned Ludd: on strike on Dec 20;
mentioned on May 16; did he even
exist? here
Albert John Lutuli (sometimes written as Luthuli): President
of the African National Congress, for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1960 (click here) ; his museum here; [Africa]
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (born May 3 1469; died June 21 1527): interesting
mention on Aug 26; given the title of
my second link, what has to have been his original website here, but his contemporary website here; his Study Centre here; the International Society here; “The Prince” here
Karl Heinrich Marx (born May 5 1818; died March 14 1883): “The Communist Manifesto” on Feb 26 and here; his Jewishness
mentioned on Feb 3 and July 5; Marx
and Engels appear together on April 5 and
Nov 6; Marxism on June 28 and
Aug 20; the goal of Marxism on Dec 20; his life in London here; Highgate cemetery here
Goldie Mabovitch (Goldie Myerson, Golda Meir): born May 3; Yom
Kippur war on Nov 3; her role in MAPAI was much more significant than her general involvement in the Zionist movement, so click here for that page of her website
Henry Louis Mencken: born Sept 12
1880, quoted on Sept 13; sadly proven
correct here, as demonstrated here; died January 29
1956; his Society here
John Stuart Mill (born May 20
1806; died May 8 1873): bio and beliefs here; “On Liberty” here; his Blue Plaque in
Kensington here
James Monroe: (born April 28 1758; died July 4 1831): proclaimed his
doctrine on Dec 2; read it, and about
it, here and here
Ali Rıza oğlu Mustafa (on his birth certificate; he acquired different
titles as he progressed from Field Marshall to President, becoming Mustafa Kemal Pasha, then Ghazi Mustafa Kemal, and finally Kemal Mustafa Atatürk, the latter meaning
“father of Turks”, and given him by the Turkish Parliament in 1934): founder of the
Turkish Republic; born May 19 1881; died Nov 10 1938; bio here
Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse
(George Padmore) (born June 28 1903; died September 23 1959):
mentioned on Aug 17; the Institute that
bears his name here
Thomas Paine (born Jan 29 1737,
though that was still the Julian calendar, so you might find him recorded as
February 9 by the Gregorian; died June 8 1809): another of Joseph Johnson's circle of radical thinkers on
April 27; slightly satirised on May 9; bio and numerous links here; his website here; his Society here; its English branch here; his research library here
José Julián Martí Pérez: born Jan 28 1853;
killed May 19 1895; his website here
Vincentella Perini (Danielle Casanova) (born
January 9 1909; died at Auschwitz May 9 1943): among the committed Marxists on
June 28; fully encountered by Max Sebald in this interview, as well
as in his novel “Vertigo”; and he did so on June 27, so it made it into my own
“A Journey In Time”. Interesting lady, Mlle Casanova:
the view from Corsica here; her street in Paris here; an attempt to paint her death here; the boat named for her here (see my novel “A Journey In Time”
for that too)
Harry Pollitt (born
November 22 1890; died June 27 1960): merely mentioned on June 28; General
Secretary, later President, of the Communist Party of Great Britain over
several decades; a song about him here; his papers here; his page at the Marxists Archive here, and at World Socialism here
Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich
Radomyslsky (Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev on his
Communist papers): Lenin’s closest confidante on Aug 20; more
about him here, but also
here, and here for an
odd side-story, and see Lev Borisovich Rosenfeld
(Kamenev), below
Alisa Zinovyevna
Rosenbaum (Ayn Rand is her pen-name,
Wikipedia thinks she’s Alice O’Connor) (born February 2 1905 in Saint
Petersburg - the Russian one, not the one in Florida; died March 6 1982):
alluded to on Nov 27,
named outright on Aug 10; the
authoress of what has to be one of the most vile ideologies - Objectivism is
its utterly objectionable name - ever thought up by selfish and greedy and
uncaring human beings; and sadly it is what the USA is all about; and she ought to be on the GER
page, but I have shrugged that off, because I rather like Dagny Taggart’s
refusal to be objectified, and then there is Howard Roark in The Fountainhead...
Julius and Ethel (Greenglass) Rosenberg: sentenced to death
on April 5; their story here
Lev Borisovich Rosenfeld (Lev Borisovich
Kamenev on his Communist papers): born July
18 1883; purged on Aug
20; died August 25 1936; so many of those who overthrew the Tsar
were Jewish, you have to wonder if Stalin
hated rivals or simply hated Jews: Kamenev’s story here
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (born June 28
1712; died July 2 1778): mentioned on Jan 18,
April 15 and Nov 18; his Association here; his Institute here; his fellowship
programme here; his books here
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born Aug
13 1926; died November 25 2016): overthrow of Batista on Jan
1; José Martí on Jan 28; sworn in on Feb 16; the "26th of July Movement" on July 26; mistaken for Hemingway on July
2; Casals and the Bay of
Pigs on Nov 13; satirised on Dec 1; his website here; his archive here
Daniel Ortega Saavedra: born Nov 11; same last name as Cervantes; so was
he a descendant? See my listing for Sergio Ramirez, and then click here to decide if he
should be moved to the GER page
Léopold Sédar Senghor: poet and politician
(click here): March 24, 1959 is commemorated as Southern
African Liberation Day (click here), presumably because
it was the day on which the "Party of the African Federation (PFA)"
was established in West Africa (then ruled by the French), by Monsieur Senghor [Africa]
Ernesto Rafael Guevara de la Serna (“Che”) (born June 14 1928
in Argentina; killed Oct 9 1967 in
Bolivia): mentioned on June 15; the
anti-Guevara view from Cuba here (and interesting
that, on American search engines, this comes up first, “sponsored”, even before
Wikipedia!); a rather less biased American bio here; his followers’
website here; links and docs here
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (Mme de Stael) (born April 22 1766; died July 14 1817): her bio,
and especially her impact on Napoleon, here; and then follow
that up in even more detail here; the prize in her
name here; the English view here; and an interesting thought for a future PhD student: several of the women of her era were advocates for Women's Rights, where she was very much committed to Women's Liberation: what precisely is the difference, which comes first, and why does it matter (and it does matter, it really does, but this needs a woman to do the thinking and writing)?
Vladimir Vasilievich
Stasov (born January 14 1824; died October 10 1906): on the blog because he brought
Hartmann and Mussorgsky together on June 2,
but he is interesting in his own write; the Tchaikovsky view here; the
Marxist perspective here
Henrietta Szold (born December 21
1806; died Feb 13 1945): bio here; Hadassah here; her School of Nursing here; her Institute here; the website of the film about her here
Alexis Charles Henri Clérel (de
Tocqueville was his title): epitomised idealism on his
birthdate, July 29 1805 (died April 16
1859): bio here
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin) (born April 22 1870; died January 21 1924): shared a
coffee bar in Zurich with James Joyce
on Bloomsday (June 16); shared a
political dream with Trotsky, and
especially Victor Serge, on Aug 20; survived an assassination attempt on Aug 30; given to Castro
as a prize on Nov 13; click here for the complete writings, which were on a shelf at the Bishopsgate Library in London, but sadly they closed all the library except the reading room (click here for an update on their promise to reopen when they get the funding); a supporter’s website here; his archive here; his museum here
Robert Wedderburn (1762-1835): complayning about
Scotland on March 15, or actually insisting on its remaining independent, when
unification was being passed through Parliament in Westminster; though there is
a dispute whether he was its author, rather than James
Inglis or David
Lyndsay; here for the history and some excerpts,
and a Uni of Edinburg revaluation here [this is also on the Scots and Cymru page]
Eric Eustace Williams: published "Capitalism
and Slavery" in 1944 [Africa]; the
debate here
Shirley Vivian Teresa
Williams (born July 27 1930;
died April 11 2021 – her obituary here): daughtering Vera
Brittain on Dec 29; but added here because she was one
of the Gang of Four, no not that Gang of Four silly, this was the British one, Roy Jenkins, David Owen, Bill Rodgers and Shirley Williams, who issued the
Limehouse Declaration on January 25 1981, establishing the Council for Social Democracy, which was renamed the
Social Democratic Party on March 26 of the same year, and shortly
after that disappeared into total oblivion (well, it’s officially still alive,
and dreaming, here)
Charlie Winter’s
translation of the Islamic State women's movement's - the al Khanssaa Brigade's
- manifesto "Women of the Islamic State” available by hyperlink on Jan 14; who he is here
Mao Ze-Dong (Mao Tse-Tung): born Dec
26 1893; died September 9 1976): “The Three Worlds” on April 18; part of the GER debate on Sept 1; died Sept
9; founded the People’s Republic on Oct
19; his archive here; his Library here; posters here
Jacob Gedleyihlekisa
Zuma: absolute power corrupts absolutely, on Feb 11: the ANC view
of him here; a rather less idolatrous version here
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