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Mine would be Aristotle, Groitus, Austin and Dworkin.
A Mount Rushmore of proper legal philosophers could and should be; Austin, Bentham, Hart and Posner.
Ayn RandMilton Friedman
Richard Posner,
Backup choices: Roger Scruton, Jagdish Bhagwati, Justice Scalia, Justice Clarence Thomas, Nani Palkhivala.
I'd call my mountain Mount CRUSH-More (i.e. crushing communism and leftism).
So mine would be
IP Massey, Avtar Singh, Ratanlal & Dhirajlal ki jodi, RK Bangia
You still want Marx (or Engels) in your Mount Rushmore? Or do wokes get a free pass when it comes to racism and sexism?
https://archive.krisis.eu/haitian-revolution/
https://www.newsherald.com/story/opinion/2020/08/16/many-marxists-dont-realize-their-hero-racist-and-anti-semite/3369024001/
Foucault was a pedophile- but hes a god for them.
The left hates women as much as the right- but no one cares because we're attached to our teams. The right thinks women are private property and the left thinks women are public property.
If you want to be a good person- ideally you know to take the good and sensible stuff from their arguments and discard the rest.
Regarding sexism, that's not backed up by either source, and case could be made he was not modern-day progressive: https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ca.collapse/feminist-questions.htm
Similar regarding racism, there are strong rebuttals online: https://jacobin.com/2022/05/marx-race-antisemitism-history-andrew-sullivan-enlightenment