Political Thinkers

What lands on a date

• 01-12 Edmund Burke · Reflections on the Revolution in France. source
• 01-15 Martin Luther King Jr. · Civil rights; the Beloved Community. source
• 01-18 Montesquieu · The Spirit of the Laws; separation of powers. source
• 01-21 Vladimir Lenin · Died. Imperialism and revolution. source
• 01-22 Antonio Gramsci · Cultural hegemony; the prison notebooks. source
• 01-23 Robert Nozick · Died. Anarchy, State, and Utopia. source
• 01-30 Mahatma Gandhi · Died. Satyagraha; nonviolent resistance. source
• 02-08 Peter Kropotkin · Died. Mutual Aid; anarchist communism. source
• 02-09 Thomas Paine · Common Sense; the rights of man. source
• 02-10 Montesquieu · Died. The Spirit of the Laws; separation of powers. source
• 02-14 Frederick Douglass · Narrative; abolition and equal rights. source
• 02-20 Frederick Douglass · Died. Narrative; abolition and equal rights. source
• 02-21 John Rawls · A Theory of Justice; the veil of ignorance. source
• 02-23 W. E. B. Du Bois · Double consciousness; The Souls of Black Folk. source
• 03-14 Karl Marx · Died. Historical materialism; Capital. source
• 03-25 Ida B. Wells · Died. Anti-lynching journalism and civil rights. source
• 04-04 Martin Luther King Jr. · Died. Civil rights; the Beloved Community. source
• 04-05 Thomas Hobbes · Leviathan; the social contract. source
• 04-16 Alexis de Tocqueville · Died. Democracy in America. source
• 04-21 Max Weber · The Protestant Ethic; authority and bureaucracy. source
• 04-22 Vladimir Lenin · Imperialism and revolution. source
• 04-27 Kwame Nkrumah · Died. Pan-Africanism; conscience of Africa. source
• 04-27 Mary Wollstonecraft · A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. source
• 04-27 Antonio Gramsci · Died. Cultural hegemony; the prison notebooks. source
• 05-03 Niccolò Machiavelli · The Prince; political realism. source
• 05-05 Karl Marx · Historical materialism; Capital. source
• 05-07 Olympe de Gouges · Declaration of the Rights of Woman. source
• 05-08 John Stuart Mill · Died. On Liberty; utilitarianism. source
• 05-20 John Stuart Mill · On Liberty; utilitarianism. source
• 05-30 Mikhail Bakunin · Anarchism; freedom and collective action. source
• 06-08 Thomas Paine · Died. Common Sense; the rights of man. source
• 06-14 Max Weber · Died. The Protestant Ethic; authority and bureaucracy. source
• 06-21 Niccolò Machiavelli · Died. The Prince; political realism. source
• 06-28 Jean-Jacques Rousseau · The Social Contract; general will. source
• 07-01 Mikhail Bakunin · Died. Anarchism; freedom and collective action. source
• 07-02 Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Died. The Social Contract; general will. source
• 07-09 Edmund Burke · Died. Reflections on the Revolution in France. source
• 07-16 Ida B. Wells · Anti-lynching journalism and civil rights. source
• 07-18 Nelson Mandela · Apartheid's end; reconciliation. source
• 07-20 Frantz Fanon · Colonialism and the wretched of the earth. source

+ 22 more day-precise entries in the corpus.

The year rail

Some lives are known by year, not by day. Those entries are kept on a rail — never placed on a fabricated date.