David McNally wins Deutscher Prize

[blake 3:17]

Wasn't quite sure where to put this... When I saw David the other night at the rally against the attack on Gaza, and we got talking, I congratulated him and he was a little bit giddy to get the same honour as Eric Hobsbawm amongst others.


Monsters of the Market wins Deutscher Prize
Posted on November 11, 2012
This weekend, Toronto activist and political scientist David McNally won the 2012 Deutscher Memorial Prize for his book Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism. The Deutscher prize was created in honour of Marxist intellectuals Isaac and Tamara Deutscher for innovative new writing in the Marxist tradition. McNally received the prize at the Historical Materialism conference in London.

Monsters of the Market is published by Haymarket as part of the Historical Materialism Book Series. The book draws on folklore, literature and popular culture to examine “Marx’s persistent use of monster-metaphors in his descriptions of capitalism” and the “cultural economy of the global market-system.”

McNally is a professor of political science at York University. He spoke to Mud and Water last year about his 2011 book Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance. Download the interview with David McNally.

http://mudandwater.org/2012/11/11/monsters-of-the-market-wins-deutscher-prize/

More and to order through Haymarket: http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Monsters-of-the-Market

[Jimmie Higgins]

Just finished his book. Vampires/Zombies/Frankenstein + "Capital"... it was like someone got peanutbutter in my chocolate.:D

[blake 3:17]

I'm really looking forward to reading it. There's a launch party here in the Tdot at the Gladstone Hotel December 4, 7:30pm. Faria Kamal, Alan Sears, Himani Bannerji, and David are speaking (briefly). Should be a fun night with plenty of varied perspectives. (I mean drunken arguments.)

His first book, Against The Market, is at times difficult but a very well informed account of early political economy and a sensible attack on market socialism. It took me a couple of tries to get going on it, but after that it was great.

[Jimmie Higgins]

I'm really looking forward to reading it. There's a launch party here in the Tdot at the Gladstone Hotel December 4, 7:30pm. Faria Kamal, Alan Sears, Himani Bannerji, and David are speaking (briefly). Should be a fun night with plenty of varied perspectives. (I mean drunken arguments.)

His first book, Against The Market, is at times difficult but a very well informed account of early political economy and a sensible attack on market socialism. It took me a couple of tries to get going on it, but after that it was great.

There are bits where he veers into some academic-speak, but, well I guess it's necissary for him to be able to do what he does. And there were parts where he discusses "Capital" and I don't know if I would understand it if I was not already familiar with the concepts. There are also some points where he begins to repeat points as if the sections were induvidual essays - which they may have been. But really small stuff for an exciting work of multi-subject synthesis.

The part about public dissection and enclosures as well as the whole section on African tales were incredibly awesome. I read it as my "commute book" and I kept wanting to turn to strangers on the subway so I could tell them about bodysnatching and how it relates to bourgoise power and hegemony:lol:

[blake 3:17]

You and others might be interested in this interview that Murray Cooke did of McNally. It covers his life of activism & ideas: http://www.socialiststudies.com/index.php/sss/article/view/174/150

[GoddessCleoLover]

Dave McNally, eh? That name causes me nostalgic memories of watching the first game of the 1966 World Series.;)