Every year, this prize is awarded for a book which exemplifies the best and most innovative new writing in or about the Marxist tradition. The closing date for nominations is May 1st, 2025.
The winning title is announced in the press, and the author is invited to deliver the following year’s Deutscher Memorial Lecture which generally takes place towards the end of November, and which has often been subsequently published in the New Left Review or Historical Materialism.
The shortlist for the 2025 prize is:
1. Helma Lutz, The Backstage of the Care Economy: Transnational Perspectives on the Commercialization of Care
2. Michael Braddick, Christopher Hill: The Life of a Radical Historian
3. Kevin B. Anderson, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism
4. Adam Hanieh, Crude Capitalism: Oil, Capitalism, and the Making of the World Market
5. Bruno Leipold, Citizen Marx: Republicanism and the Formation of Karl Marx’s Social and Political Thought
6. Michael Shane Boyle, The Arts of Logistics: Artistic Production in Supply-Chain Capitalism
Follow the Deutscher Prize on Twitter for updates about this year’s prize and upcoming podcasts with the shortlisted authors for 2024.
Interviews with former prize winners can be found here.
Interviews with 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 shortlisted authors can be listened to here.
Current members of the Deutscher Jury: Gilbert Achcar, Alex Callinicos, Alejandro Colas, Ben Fine, Rob Knox, Chun Lin, Esther Leslie, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Chris Wickham, and Lea Ypi.
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