(1882 - 1968) ~ Russian-born American Political Activist, Radical Journalist, and Trade Union Functionary. Salutsky-Hardman was a Proponent of Radicalism as a Marxist Thinker and a Leader of the Jewish Socialist Federation of the Socialist Party of America (SPA) : Born Jacob Benjamin Salutsky, (1882-1968) was a Russian-born American political activist, radical journalist, and trade union functionary. Salutsky-Hardman was a proponent of radicalism as a Marxist thinker and a leader of the Jewish Socialist Federation of the Socialist Party of America (SPA). A brief stint in the American Communist movement ended in his expulsion in 1923. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

Historian of East Africa and its Transition out of Colonialism

(1664 - ) ~ French Catholic Priest (abb?) who was Discovered, upon his Death, to have Written a Book-length Philosophical Essay Promoting Atheism and Materialism : A French Catholic priest (abb?) who was discovered, upon his death, to have written a book-length philosophical essay promoting atheism and materialism. Described by the author as his "testament" to his parishioners, the text criticizes and denounces all religions. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

(1564 - 1642) ~ Italian Astronomer, Physicist, Engineer, Polymath, Called the "father" of Observational Astronomy, Modern Physics, the Scientific Method, and Modern Science : An Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. Commonly referred to as Galileo. He was born in the city of Pisa, then part of the Duchy of Florence. Galileo has been called the "father" of observational astronomy, modern physics, the scientific method, and modern science. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

(1974 - ) ~ Modern American Anarchist Author, best Known as the Author of Our Enemies In Blue: Police and Power in America : Active in the anarchist movement since the early 1990s. He is the author, most recently, of Between the Bullet and the Lie: Essays on Orwell. (From : Platypus1917.org.)

"Wanted-- A Bigger Motherhood," by Margaret Sanger, 1912. Source: Margaret Sanger Papers, Library of Congress , Library of Congress Microfilm 131:0108.

"The Social System of the Modern Factory; The Strike: A Social Analysis," by W. Lloyd Warner and J.O. Low, Yankee City Series: Volume Four, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1947.

"The Wage System," by Peter Kropotkin, 1920.

"The First Socialist Society: A History of the Soviet Union from Within," by Geoffrey Hosking, published by Harvard University Press, 1985.

"What's Happening In America," by Susan Sontag, published in the Partisan Review in 1966. Quoted from The Portable Sixties Reader, edited by Ann Charters, a Penguin Classics.