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does michael parenti count? if so, there's a lot of parenti love around here
the ultimate corrupted wish: kissinger dies but parenti also dies
Giovanni Arrighi (god rest his soul) squeaks in with his updated 2010 edition of the long twentieth century.
I guess if you’re going to put Rubin in there mind as well include the others.
Mark Fisher's hauntology and capitalist realism are the most modern marxism gets
Mike Davis for his incredibly prescient urban histories, imo one of the best living Marxist historians. He put out his first direct engagement with Marx as a thinker, rather than using Marxist historiography, this past year.
Also just in terms of reexamining Marx, I think we are in a new phase of finally getting cold War blinders off and reconnecting to 19th century republicanism that Marx was radicalizing which was overlooked for a long time. There's a few people writing about that like William Clare Roberts. In fact the first new translation of capital in 40 years will be coming out in 2021 or 22.
The socialist register is also continuing to put out great essays each year.
OH there's also Andreas Malm who is great. He wrote a history of capitalism focused on fuel extraction that was really interesting.
Perry Anderson is still alive too, so count him I guess.
Paul Mattick Jr. (yes son of the council communist Paul Mattick who was a very young workers council delegate in the German revolution lol) also continues to write really cool stuff, I picked up a copy of his essays on Capital that I haven't had a chance to read yet.
Adolph reed junior I think has also put out some cool work, primarily Class Notes.
There's also new translation of old work and publishing being done. Rosa Luxemburg for example is slowly getting a full english translation from the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftungand and some other people (please donate to that btw so they can finish translating before 2040 lol, they're only 3/17 volumes done right now lol). Eugene Debs is also getting collected works published, I think the 3rd volume of that is coming out this month actually.
Whoa whoa whoa, who's doing the new Capital translation?! I haven't heard of this, would love to read up on it!
I'm not sure who is translating it, I swear I had their page up at some point but lost it. I do know it's being published on Princeton University Press in 2022, using a base text of the 2nd German edition with additional passages incorporated as notes.
edit: Ah, found it using archived tweets lol. Paul Reitter is translating it, and the additional passages that will be incorporated are from the important passages in the French edition and the Ergänzungen und Veränderungen manuscript. No longer will we be burdened by that Ernest Mandel intro that is in the penguin Fowkes translation lol.
He did a lecture on it in 2019, https://german.dartmouth.edu/news/2019/04/lecture-translating-capital-twenty-first-century (of which no recording exists lol)
Michael Hardt and Anotonio Negri are some interesting thinkers.
Anna Tsing does really good work in The Mushroom at the End of the World
Edit: I like Sylvia Federici a lot too
Hardt and Negri are Marxists (Negri fought in the years of lead). I haven’t read much of their work but I know it’s well respected. They do a lot with “multitude” and just generally updating Marxist theory for 21st century conditions.
Anna Tsing’s book uses the matsutake mushroom industry as a jumping off point for examining neoliberalism, especially supply chains.
Federici is a Marxist feminist and just generally puts out really thought provoking work. Her famous boon is Caliban and the Witch
What about Cornel West? Not technically a Marxist but he's near enough to it IMO. Also she’s old af but if you’re counting Chomsky in with 21st century folks you definitely have to include Angela Davis.
Eric Hobsbawm's (died in 2012 i think?) really good marxist historian
Andreas Malm has to be in this conversation. He wrote a fantastic defense of historical materialism in the face of OOO (object oriented ontology) and postmodernist critiques when it comes to climate change. His Fossil Capital is a groundbreaking work that uses that method to show climate change was not inevitable or the fault of "all mankind," but capitlism developed in 19th century Britain. Steam power was used to crush labor power, and that's how climate change started. He writes so well and clearly and his work is always very engaging. He has a new book coming out soon called How To Blow Up a Pipeline and I'm very excited to read it.
Late af but seconding this. Fossil Capital should honestly be considered essential theory, its a brilliant re-understanding of the history of climate change and the industrial revolution
I don't know if she's big right now, but I'm reading a book called The Age of Surveillance Capitalism_ by Shoshana Zuboff, and so far its been a good read. She might become bigger in the left over time.
