• 秦始皇帝@lemmy.ml
    6·
    4 days ago

    Xi Jinping, Cheng Enfu, Wang Binglin, Tian Pengying, Xie 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.

  • marxismtomorrow@lemmy.today
    6·
    4 days ago

    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 Jinping. 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.

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
    81·
    6 days ago

    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.

  • folaht@lemmy.ml
    1·
    4 days ago

    I only know video hosters, so

    #1 Nathan Rich
    #2 J.T. Chapman
    #3 Ben Norton

    Not really scholars, but they have interesting insights.

  • Crash@lemmy.ml
    2·
    6 days ago

    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

    • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
      8·
      6 days ago

      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!”