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Paul R. Brass

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Cathy Porter

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Howard Zinn

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Anant Raje

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Michael Lowy

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José Carlos Mariátegui

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Lekha Chakraborty

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Suvira Jaiswal

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R.H. Tawney

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Joseph Dietzgen

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