@ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com
Who would you say is the greatest living scholar/intellectual of Marxism or Communism more broadly?
2026-07-21 01:41 UTC
Replies (13)
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@crash_thepose@lemmy.ml 2026-07-21 02:09
…karl marx?
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@crash_thepose@lemmy.ml 2026-07-21 02:16
For real tho Annie McClanahan perhaps? I would have said Joshua Clover although sadly he just passed within the past year or so. It’s hard to sometimes decipher what scholar is or is not working with Marxism since it’s been so influential to so many academic fields
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@dessalines@lemmy.ml 2026-07-21 02:58
A few that I can think of: Rockhill, Smith, Enfu, Boer, Manoel, Foster, Cockshott, Shaikh. We lost Losurdo pretty recently, and he was IMO one of the best of the last few decades.
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@rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-07-21 02:57
I’d say Michael Parenti
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@SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 2026-07-21 04:16
I know he’s not marxist but perhaps Žižek?
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@hanrahan@slrpnk.net 2026-07-21 09:21
not sure of “greatest living” but Kohei Saito seems decent archive.org/…/Kohei Saito. Marx in the Anthropoce… I thought Karl Popper’s insight’s worth a read/look, but he was and then was not a fan (he dead though)
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@crash_thepose@lemmy.ml 2026-07-21 11:40
im adding Hardt and negri, and jodi dean.
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@Cowbee@lemmy.ml 2026-07-21 11:51
I’m a fan of Cheng Enfu and Roland Boer. If you asked a few years ago I would have added Domenico Losurdo, but sadly he had passed.
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@PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 2026-07-21 13:27
Lenin
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@folaht@lemmy.ml 2026-07-22 11:18
I only know youtubers, so #1 Nathan Rich #2 J.T. Chapman #3 Ben Norton
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@piezoelectron@sopuli.xyz 2026-07-22 12:02
Surprised that no one’s mentioned David Harvey, who’s perhaps the best teacher for those new to Marxism
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@marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today 2026-07-22 12:21
This will be controversial given the “that’s not true communism according to my 170 year old theory book” crowd that sometimes permeates western leftists like a disgusting plague; but Xi Jingping. He’s released 6 or so books, he has a literal Doctorate in Marxism, and has documented China’s success and failures in its strive towards communism, including very good answers for every single criticism western Do-Nothing marxists have towards China’s Dengist reforms and their incredible economic success.
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@QinShiHuangsShlong@lemmy.ml 2026-07-22 12:43
Cheng Enfu, Wang Binglin, Tian Pengying, Cie Fusheng Honestly it’s such a broad area of research that naming a single greatest is impossible due to each researcher having their own speciality.