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 winner of the 2024 prize is Matteo Pasquinelli’s, The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence.
The shortlist for the 2024 prize was:
1. Travelers of the World Revolution: A Global History of the Communist International, by Brigitte Studer.
2. Border-Marxisms and Historical Materialism, by Aditya Nigam.
3. What is Antiracism?: And Why it Means Anticapitalism, by Arun Kundnani.
4. The Fall and Rise of American Finance: From J.P. Morgan to BlackRock, by Scott Aquanno and Stephen Maher.
5. The Eye of the Master: A Social History of Artificial Intelligence, by Matteo Pasquinelli.
Follow the Deutscher Prize on Twitter for updates about this year’s prize and upcoming podcasts with the shortlisted authors for 2023.
Interviews with former prize winners can be found here.
Interviews with 2021, 2022, and 2023 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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