Archive of Isaac Deutscher

• Ellen Meiksins Woods: Capitalism and Human Emancipation

  Ellen Meiksins Wood (1942-2016) was a leading political theorist and one of the world's most influential historians. Her wide-ranging and original work, covering topics which range from examinations of Athenian democracy to contemporary American imperialism, has, alongside Robert Brenner, inaugurated the 'Political Marxist' approach to history. 
  
  In this piece, originally delivered as an Issac Deutscher memorial lecture published in NLRI/167, Wood analyses the prospects for emancipation in contemporary capitalism.
  
  
  
  

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  By Ellen Meiksins Wood / 14 January 2017 / comments

• Lenin remembered!: A reading list

  In order to commemorate Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, who died on this day 92 years ago, we present a reading list of books that respond to, critique and chronicle Lenin's life and work. The books in this library emphasise the intervention and impact he made in Marxist discourse, most evident in the juncture between theory and practice. 
  
  
  

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  By Florence Stencel-Wade / 21 January 2016 / comments

• The Making of Global Capitalism awarded the Deutscher Memorial Prize

  The Making of Global Capitalism, Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin's landmark account of the role of the United States in the development of the global economic system, has won the prestigious Deutscher Memorial Prize for 2013.
  
  The Deutscher Memorial Prize is awarded each year, in honour of the historian Isaac Deutscher and his wife Tamara, to a work which best exemplifies innovative writing within the Marxist tradition. Previous winners include Mike Davis, Robin Blackburn, Ellen Mieksins Wood and Eric Hobsbawm.
  
  Two books from Verso received nominations this year; as well as The Making of Global Capitalism, Vivek Chibber's Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital was in the running for the prize. Chibber's book has been raising fierce debate within the field of postcolonial studies field since its publication earlier this year.

  By Huw Lemmey / 14 November 2013 / comments

• Blair puts The Prophet trilogy by Isaac Deutscher on his list of 'Desert Island Books'

  While George W. Bush may be a touch disappointed to find his Decision Points omitted, we're sure Isaac Deutscher would have been more than a bit alarmed to find his sympathetic three-volume biography of Trotsky listed among Tony Blair's 'Desert Island Books.'

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  By Andrea D'Cruz / 27 June 2011 / comments