🗣️📣 ATTENTION EVERYONE, 2 LIBERALS JUST INFILTRATED THIS THREAD, INSTINCTIVELY DOWNVOTING EVERYTHING THEY SEE RATHER THAN GOING THROUGH WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
Vijay Prashad, Losurdo (recently passed away RIP), Zak Cope, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Parenti, John Smith, Roland Boer, Galeano, Paul Cockshott (on certain things), Jin Huiming, Assata shakur, Federici (weirdly not a marxist but does marxist analysis in all her works).
Yeah. I believe he suffers from dementia so he can't speak or write anymore. Really sad story.
Sometimes I listen to Parenti lectures I've already heard too many times just because I like listening to him. He was a great and passionate speaker.
"If you want to get a photo from the press just gesture wildly" he has some great quips. Very funny guy when he wants to be. Love his lectures.
China Miéville is definitely some type of Marxist.
“Iron Council” has railworkers overthrow their bosses and turn a train into a socialist settlement. They travel slowly so they can just take apart the track behind it and lay it again in front of the train where they want to go.
A more serious work would be “October”. It’s historical fiction not academic, but it’s a worthwhile introduction if you really don’t want to read a history book.
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For a serious answer I would say David Harvey, but being real I've seen way more of his lectures than I have read of his books.
Personally, he’s kind of bland (his voice). He’s also anti-China. In his book on neoliberalism he put Deng and Reagan on the same level.
Professor Roland Boer, he is afaik the only non-Chinese professor of Marxism in all of China and studies marxism, Chinese socialism, and religious belief and spirituality from a marxist perspective. These are my recommendations for books, with the first one being my all time suggestion for people:
Most of his books are free on his website or around the internet
Gabriel Rockhill: 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!”
A position further solidified by how often he plagiarizes himself. Literally if you've read one Zizek book, you've read parts of others already.
People have already covered the major authors so I'm going to give a shout out to Torkil Lauesen.
He had a good interview on RevLeft Radio and an okay one on The Deprogram if you want to get a feel for what he's like.