Deutscher Memorial Prize

The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize is an annual prize given in honour of historian Isaac Deutscher and his wife Tamara Deutscher for a new book published in English "which exemplifies the best and most innovative new writing in or about the Marxist tradition." It has been ongoing since 1969.

As of November 2020, members of the Deutscher Jury include Gilbert Achcar, Alex Callinicos, Alejandro Colas, Ben Fine, Rob Knox, Esther Leslie, Alfredo Saad-Filho, Chris Wickham, and Lea Ypi.

Recipients include Jairus Banaji (2011, Theory as History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation), David Harvey (2010, The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism), Rick Kuhn (2007, for a biography of Henryk Grossman), Christopher Wickham (2006, for Framing the Early Middle Ages), Francis Wheen (1999, for a biography of Karl Marx), Eric Hobsbawm (1995, for The Age of Extremes), Terry Eagleton (1989, The Ideology of the Aesthetic), Robert Brenner (1985, for The Brenner Debate), and G.A. Cohen (1978, for Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence).[1]

Recipients[2]
Year Winner Book Publisher
2020 John Bellamy Foster The Return of Nature: Socialism and Ecology Monthly Review
2019 Brett Christophers The New Enclosure The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain Verso
2018 Kohei Saito Karl Marx’s Ecosocialism: Capital, Nature, and the Unfinished Critique of Political Economy Monthly Review
2017 William Clare Roberts Marx’s Inferno: The Political Theory of Capital Princeton University Press
2016 Andreas Malm Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming Verso
2015 Tamás Krausz Reconstructing Lenin: An Intellectual Biography Monthly Review
2014 Roland Boer In The Vale of Tears: On Marxism and Theology V Brill
2013 Sam Gindin and Leo Panitc The Making of Global Capitalism: The Political Economy of American Empire Verso
2012 David McNally Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism Brill
2011 Jairus Banaji Theory as History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation Brill
2010 David Harvey The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism Profile Books
2009 Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics Routledge
2008 Kees van der Pijl Nomads, Empires, States: Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy Pluto Press
2007 Rick Kuhn Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism University of Illinois Press
2006 Chris Wickham Framing the Early Middle Ages, Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800 Oxford University Press
2005 Kevin Murphy Revolution and Counterrevolution, Class Struggle in a Moscow Metal Factory Berghahn Books
2004 Michael A. Lebowitz Beyond Capital. Marx’s Political Economy of the Working Class (2nd Edition) Palgrave Macmillan
2003 Joint Award:

Neil Davidson

and

Benno Teschke

 Discovering the Scottish Revolution

and

The Myth of 1648: Class, Geopolitics, and the Making of Modern International Relations

 Pluto Press

and

Verso

2002 Brian Kelly Race, Class, and Power in the Alabama Coalfields, 1908-21 University of Illinois Press
2001 James Holstun Ehud’s Dagger: Class Struggle in the English Revolution Verso
2000 Peter Gowan The Global Gamble: Washington’s Faustian Bid for World Dominance Verso
1999 Francis Wheen Karl Marx Fourth Estate
1998 Not Awarded n/a n/a
1997 Robin Blackburn The Making of New World Slavery: From the Baroque to the Modern, 1492-1800 Verso
1996 Donald Sassoon One Hundred Years of Socialism: The West European Left in the Twentieth Century I.B.Tarius
1995 Eric Hobsbawm The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991 M. Joseph
1994 Justin Rosenberg The Empire of Civil Society: A Critique of the Realist Theory of International Relations Verso
1993 Harvey J. Kaye The Education of Desire: Marxists and the Writing of History Routledge
1992 Len Doyal and Ian Gough A Theory of Human Need Macmillan
1991 Mike Davis City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles Vintage Books
1990 Arno J. Mayer Why Did the Heavens Not Darken?: The Final Solution in History Verso
1989 Terry Eagleton The Ideology of Aesthetic Blackwell
1988 Boris Kagarlitsky Thinking Reed: Intellectuals and the Soviet State 1917 to the Present Verso
1987 Teodor Shanin Russia, 1905-07: Revolution as a Moment of Truth Macmillan
1986 Ellen Meiksins Wood The Retreat from Class: A New “True” Socialism Verso
1985 Robert Brenner The Brenner Debate: Agrarian Class Structure and Economic Development in Pre-industrial Europe Cambridge University Press
1984 Margaret A. Rose Marx’s Lost Aesthetic: Karl Marx and the Visual Arts Cambridge University Press
1983 Barbara Taylor Eve and the New Jerusalem: Socialism and Feminism in the Nineteenth Century Virago
1982 G. E. M. de Ste. Croix The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World: From the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests Duckworth
1981 Neil Harding Lenin’s Political Thought Macmillan
1980 Bob Rowthorn Capitalism, Conflict and Inflation: Essays in Political Economy Lawrence & Wishart
1979 G. A. Cohen Karl Marx’s Theory of History: A Defence Oxford University Press
1978 Brian Kelly The Alternative in Eastern Europe NLB
1977 S. S. Prawer Karl Marx and World Literature Verso
1976 Wlodzimierz Brus Socialist Ownership and Political Systems RKP
1975 Marcel Liebman Leninism under Lenin Cape
1974 Marxism and Islam Marxism and Islam Allen Lane
1973 Lucio Colleti From Rousseau to Lenin: Studies in Ideology and Society NLB
1972 Paul Walton and Andrew Gamble From Alienation to Surplus Value Macmillan
1971 Not Awarded n/a n/a
1970 Istvan Meszaros Marx’s Theory of Alienation Merlin
1969 Martin Nicolaus The Unknown Marx New Left Review

Shortlists for each year can be found on the Deutscher Prize Website.

Reference
  1. Recipients of the Prize
  2. "Past Recipients". The Deutscher Memorial Prize. 2014-06-10. Retrieved 2020-11-14.


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