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.
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)
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)