I just found out yesterday about the sad news of the passing of Michael A. Lebowitz (November 27, 1937 - April 19, 2023). Lebowitz was incredibly active, both politically and intellectually, throughout his life as a Marxist political economist who was also inspired by Hegel. Anyone who wants to construct a better world in which 'the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all’ (an oft-quoted remark of Marx's by Lebowitz), then turning to his theoretical work, especially all of his books from Beyond Capital to Between Capitalism and Community, is a great way to go. For then you will be provided with not only a critique of capitalism (and its 'hired prizefighters' too - the neoclassical economists!) but also an argument for socialism and how it's to be achieved.
The best epithet to sum up Michael A. Lebowitz's life is the one he used to sum up the life of his partner in Marta Harnecker:
There are those that struggle all of their life.
They are the indispensable ones.
(Bertolt Brecht, "In Praise of the Fighters")
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