Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (Theory, 19th century)
- Believed that just as the capitalists overthrew the aristocratic power structure, the working class would overthrow the capitalist power structure
Rosa Luxemburg (Germany, 19-20th century)
Vladimir Lenin (Soviet, 1917)
- He was the first to deal with political organization to implement the Marxist philosophy
- Believed in forming a vanguard party to protect the rights of the workers
Joseph Stalin (Soviet, 1924)
- Believed in a state-isolated communist state, and killing anyone who opposed it
Leon Trotsky (Soviet/USA, 1924)
- Opposed Stalin's idea of state-isolated communism
Ho Chi Minh (Vietnam, 1923)
Kim II-Sung (Korea, 1948)
Mao Zedong (1949)
- Believed that the rural peasant class, and not the urban working class would lead the revolution
Ernesto Che Guevara and Fidel Castro (Cuba, 1959)
Pol Pot (Cambodia, 1975)
- An extreme form of Mao's idea

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