(1857 - 1933) ~ German Marxist Theorist, Social Democratic Party of Germany Activist, Communist Activist, and Advocate for Women's Rights : A German Marxist theorist, communist activist, and advocate for women's rights. Until 1917, she was active in the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She then joined the Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany (USPD) and its far-left wing, the Spartacist League. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

(1818 - 1905) ~ American Politician, Lawyer, Statesman, Secretary Of The Treasury Under U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant, The 20th Governor Of Massachusetts, A Senator And Representative From Massachusetts : An American politician, lawyer, and statesman from Massachusetts. He served as Secretary of the Treasury under U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant, the 20th Governor of Massachusetts, a Senator and Representative from Massachusetts and the first Commissioner of Internal Revenue under U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

(1913 - 1995) ~ Economics and Social Science Professor at the University of Chicago Between 1945 and 1978 : Taught Economics and Social Science at the University of Chicago between 1945 and 1978. His analysis of the role of cultural and sociological factors in economic development was influential and contrasted to Chicago School models of self-interested maximizing behavior. Hoselitz was the founding editor of Economic Development and Cultural Change, a prominent journal in the new research field of economic development. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

(1711 - 1776) ~ Scottish Enlightenment Philosopher, Historian, Economist, Librarian and Essayist, as well as Philosophical Empiricist, Skeptic, and Naturalist : Generally regarded as one of the most important philosophers to write in English, David Hume (1711?1776) was also well known in his own time as an historian and essayist. (From : Plato.Stanford.edu.)

(bce372 - bce289) ~ Chinese Confucian Philosopher who has often been described as the "second Sage" After Confucius : A Chinese Confucian philosopher who has often been described as the "second Sage", that is, after only Confucius himself. He is part of Confucius' fourth generation of disciples. Mencius inherited Confucius' ideology and developed it further. Living during the Warring States period, he is said to have spent much of his life travelling around the states offering counsel to different rulers. (From : Wikipedia.org.)

"Letters from the Earth," by Mark Twain. Published by Harper Perennial, edited by Bernard DeVoto. Published posthumously in 1962.

"The Capitalist System," by Mikhail Bakunin. This pamphlet is an excerpt from The Knouto-Germanic Empire and the Social Revolution and included in The Complete Works of Michael Bakunin under the title "Fragment." Parts of the text were originally translated into English by G.P. Maximoff for his anthology of Bakunin's writings, with missing paragraphs translated by Jeff Stein from the Spanish edition, Diego Abad de Santillan, trans. (Buenos Aires 1926) vol. III, pp. 181-196.

"Council Communism & The Critique of Bolshevism," by Cajo Brendel, in Red & Black Notes #8, Spring 1999.

"General Remarks on the Question of Organisation," by Anton Pannekoek, 1938.

"The Idea of Good Government," by Errico Malatesta, from Umanita Nova 1920; included in 'Malatesta: Life and Ideas', Freedom Press.