Thread by @shlomowreck

Thread of Marxist theoreticians having Jewish ancestry or suspected of having Jewish ancestry:

Victor Adler - Jewish ancestry.
Theodor W. Adorno - Jewish ancestry through his mother.
Walter Benjamin - Jewish ancestry.
Eduard Bernstein - Jewish ancestry.

1/11

Ernst Bloch - Jewish ancestry.
G. A. Cohen - Jewish ancestry.
Daniel De Leon - Jewish ancestry.
Raya Dunayevskaya - Jewish ancestry.
Karl Marx - Jewish ancestry through his paternal line; his father converted to Christianity.

2/11

Paul Lafargue - Jewish ancestry through his maternal grandfather (Karl Marx's wife, Jenny von Westphalen, was partly of Jewish descent).
Leon Trotsky - Jewish ancestry.
Rosa Luxemburg - Jewish ancestry.
Herbert Marcuse - Jewish ancestry.

3/11

Friedrich Engels - Some sources claim Jewish ancestry.
Isaak Illich Rubin - Jewish ancestry.
Alfred Sohn-Rethel - Jewish ancestry.
Karl Kautsky - Jewish ancestry through his maternal line.
Max Horkheimer - Jewish ancestry.
Georg Lukács - Jewish ancestry.

4/11

Bertolt Brecht - Jewish ancestry through his maternal grandmother.
Sylvia Pankhurst - Jewish ancestry through her maternal grandmother.
Fredric Jameson - Jewish ancestry (though less commonly known).
Felix Guattari - Jewish ancestry (though less commonly known).

5/11

Frantz Fanon - Jewish ancestry (through his paternal grandmother, though this is debated).
Herman Gorter - Jewish ancestry (though less commonly known).
Paul Sweezy - Jewish ancestry (through his paternal grandfather, though not widely confirmed).

6/11

Rudolf Hilferding - Jewish ancestry.
Amadeo Bordiga - Jewish ancestry (though less commonly known).
Vladimir Lenin - Jewish ancestry through his maternal grandfather.
Jean-Paul Sartre - Jewish ancestry through his maternal grandmother.
Alexandra Kollontai - Jewish ancestry.

7/11

István Mészáros - Jewish ancestry.
Antonio Labriola - Jewish ancestry (suspected, though not confirmed).
Kojin Karatani - Jewish ancestry (suspected, though not confirmed).
Harry Haywood - Jewish ancestry (suspected, though not confirmed).

8/11

Kim Il-Sung - Jewish ancestry (suspected, though not confirmed).
Enver Hoxha - Jewish ancestry (suspected, though not confirmed).
Abimael Guzmán - Jewish ancestry (suspected, though not confirmed).
Nikolai Bukharin - Jewish ancestry (suspected, though not confirmed).

9/11

Félix Guattari - Jewish ancestry (suspected, though not confirmed).
José Carlos Mariátegui - Jewish ancestry (suspected, though not confirmed).
Georgi Plekhanov - Jewish ancestry (suspected, though not confirmed).

10/11

C.L.R. James - Jewish ancestry (suspected).
Antonio Gramsci - Jewish ancestry (suspected, ).
David Harvey - Jewish ancestry (suspected, though not confirmed).
Ernesto "Che" Guevara - Jewish ancestry (suspected).
Angela Davis - Jewish ancestry (suspected).

11/11