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.
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.
Surprised that no one’s mentioned David Harvey, who’s perhaps the best teacher for those new to Marxism
I only know video hosters, so
#1 Nathan Rich
#2 J.T. Chapman
#3 Ben NortonNot really scholars, but they have interesting insights.
Lenin
Lenin still lives?!
Yes
this is a tough one but I’m going to say karl marx
sorry to break the bad news but he’s not alive anymore
there’s no way obama would be that happy reviving marx. lol
That’s what they want you to think !
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.
Damn RIP. I didn’t know Losurdo passed away.
I’d say Michael Parenti
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im adding Hardt and negri, and jodi dean.
not 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)
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
I know he’s not marxist but perhaps Žižek?
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!”
zizek is a moron
how so?
idk maybe how he constantly says right wing shit?
dude chill, i was asking because i don’t know anything about him
Like what?
Read the article above. He’s very anti-immigrant, and anti-communist.
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.
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.
