Okay, the criteria are recently dead and have done terrible damage to the culture, right? Well, I don’t like John Dewey as a nominee because he seems to be a decent guy, whatever mistakes he may have made. Ditto for those Supreme Court Justices. They may have been wrong, but they weren’t traitors or enemies. So here’s my brief, off the cuff, by no means final, in no particular order, list:

1. Franz Fanon.

2. Edward Said.

3. Che Guevara (and the rest of that very good list posted by Derb below).

4. Norman Mailer & Gore Vidal — once they’re dead.

5. Mumia Abu Jamal — assuming he dies of old age.

6. Pol Pot (unless he falls into the too-obvious-villain category).

7. Paul De Man, Martin Heidegger and a slew of lesser post-modernists, phenomenologists, Husserlites, post-structuralists, etc.

8. The Krupps Family circa WWII

9. All Soviet dictators whose bodies have enough coherence to still dangle.

10 L. Ron Hubbard

11. The Rosenbergs, just to emphasize we were right the first time.

12. The Assaads, Jong-Ils, Khomenis and other assorted recently departed dicators.

13. I.F. Stone.

14. Margaret Sanger