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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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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.
As much as I love Parenti (may he rest in peace), I wouldn’t classify him as a Marxist scholar, more of a “pro-Marxist.”
It’s called “popularisator”, someone who’s great at explaining complicated concepts and/or processes. Though he did had some great materialist analysis of various topics which does place him as the marxist scholar after all i think. Just not the Lenin or Mao caliber.
That’s a valid way of viewing him. He’s absolutely a vital figure, and probably the one I recommend the most for liberals due to his unique skills as an orator and in conveying Marxist ideas. My point was more that I don’t see him as I see Losurdo, for example, nor one of the actual revolutionaries in AES countries (who are less purely scholars and more theoreticians and practicians).
3 daysnot sure of “greatest living” but Kohei Saito seems decent
https://archive.org/download/18965473/Kohei Saito. Marx in the Anthropocene.pdf
I thought Karl Popper’s insight’s worth a read/look, but he was and then was not a fan (he dead though)
Zizek is more of a Hegelian by his own admission, and is essentially an “imperialist from the left.”
Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek
This neoliberal prankster is thus the epitome of a radical recuperator. He cultivates and markets the appearance of radicality in order to recuperate potentially radical elements in society, particularly young people and students, within the pro-imperialist anti-communist fold. This is precisely why he is the most famous ‘Marxist’ in the capitalist world, festooned by the likes of a journal linked to the engine of U.S. imperialism. His mantra is nothing but an opportunistic perversion of the closing lines of The Communist Manifesto: “Cultural consumers of the pro-Western world unite—and buy my next book, or movie, or crossover product, or whatever, and so on, and so on!”
I just listened to him for five minutes and felt he was wasting my time. I like people who pick a topic and then follow through with it.
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I’ve seen/heard him say interesting and thought-provoking things.
But yeah, most of the time it seems like he just likes hearing himself speak.
