Anti-Stalinist left

The anti-Stalinist left is a broad political movement within the left-wing that opposes Stalinism, including its authoritarianism, bureaucratisation, and suppression of political dissent. It encompasses various socialist and communist traditions, including Trotskyism, libertarian socialism, left communism, and democratic socialism, which advocate different approaches to achieving socialism and organising society.

Notable anti-Stalinist leftists

• Leon Trotsky
• Emma Goldman
• Alexander Berkman
• Victor Serge
• Nikolai Bukharin
• Amadeo Bordiga
• Karl Korsch
• Anton Pannekoek
• Otto Rühle
• Rudolf Rocker
• Voline
• Boris Souvarine
• James P. Cannon
• Max Shachtman
• C. L. R. James
• Raya Dunayevskaya
• Cornelius Castoriadis
• Claude Lefort
• Hal Draper
• Paul Mattick
• Daniel Guérin
• Andrés Nin
• Buenaventura Durruti
• Andreu Nin
• George Orwell
• Albert Camus
• André Breton
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Simone Weil
• Dwight Macdonald
• Irving Howe
• Sidney Hook
• Daniel Bell
• Mary McCarthy
• Herbert Marcuse
• Noam Chomsky
• Tony Cliff
• Ernest Mandel
• Guy Debord
• Maurice Brinton
• Milovan Đilas
• Josip Broz Tito
• Imre Nagy
• Alexander Dubček
• Ota Šik
• Leszek Kołakowski
• Mikhail Gorbachev
• Władysław Gomułka
• Christopher Hitchens
• Michael Harrington
• Norman Thomas
• Bayard Rustin
• Clement Attlee
• Willy Brandt
• Bertrand Russell
• Ignazio Silone
• Carlo Tresca
• Claude McKay
• Benjamin Péret
• Pierre Naville
• David Rousset
• Colette Audry
• Lucien Laurat
• Marcel Martinet
• Maurice Nadeau
• Henry Poulaille
• I. F. Stone
• Miłosz Kalinowski