Sentence examples for leftist thinkers from inspiring English sources

While incarcerated, however, he produced an extraordinary quantity of letters and essays that have influenced generations of leftist thinkers up to the present.

"We are a nation of torturers and torture victims," says Aarao Reis, now considered one of Brazil's leading historians and leftist thinkers.

Anti-Intellectualism. Bill Buckley, the ideological father of the modern conservative movement, was arguably the most intellectual figure in the land and prevailed because his erudition, sense of context and history went deeper than the trendy new leftist thinkers he confronted.

The political situation was worsening, and the future looked bleak for a leftist thinker with a Jewish background.

In the unsettled 1960s Adorno was first embraced as a leftist thinker and then accused of using his teaching to discourage anti-establishment activism.

Our Terrible Country examines the relationship between the young photographer Ziad Homsi – who was tortured by Assad, fought for the Free Army, and later fell into Isis captivity – and the leftist thinker and former political prisoner Yassin al-Haj Saleh.

In his book "The Power Elite," published in 1956, the leftist thinker C. Wright Mills identified a class "composed of political, economic, and military men," who harnessed "the major means of production" along with "the newly enlarged means of violence" created in the nuclear age.

A postgraduate student of political philosophy, his latest album, We Must Become The Pitiless Censors Of Ourselves – one of 2011's best – is titled after a quotation from leftist thinker Alain Badiou; amid a tide of apolitical, irony-drenched blog rock, his earnest zeal is refreshing.

These two books by the legendary leftist thinker and linguist Noam Chomsky indicate that maybe Bin Laden assumed the enemy of his enemy was his friend.

Unfortunately, its argument sounds a lot like conservative philosopher Denis Dutton's "Bad Writing Contest," for which he held up passages from leftist cultural thinkers like Fredric Jameson or Judith Butler to scorn.

Mr Morin, 89, the apostle of "the politics of civilisation" and what he calls "complex thought", is a leftist political thinker (which, as he demonstrates, need not be an oxymoron).