Cordelia's Untitled Communism Book
Short answer: what Marx argued is specific to communism, why our past sketches of communism aren't capturing it, and how we need to retool our concepts & systematise in a very different kind of way to do so.
Longer (highly provisional) answer:
As you may know, I just quit a job to finish writing a book on communism. I've been working on this book for a good while now, and I have a clear outline of what precisely remains to be written. I hope (fingers crossed) to deliver a final proposal within 3 months, and a first draft manuscript within a year.
I am writing this book without institutional support of any kind. Most left & academic publishers pay authors little to nothing. In practice, most authors get remunerated for writing these books through tenure. I have one going concern which motivates the top-line amount I'm trying to raise: health insurance. My last job had health insurance uniquely well-suited to my medical needs, which continuing via COBRA will cost ~$900 a month.
At the lower tier, you get at-least-weekly (though likely cursory) updates on the writing of the book, as well as the occasional finished sub-section (not in chronological order), and membership in a forum for chatting on the book!
The higher tier is a little like pre-ordering the book, though not exactly. Its price, over the course of the year I'm going to be doing this, is set to be about the cost of buying a copy of the book. As such, I'll get you a complete copy of the book proposal and a more or less complete first draft manuscript. I'll also try my utmost to get you an author's copy of the final book, although as the book hasn't been sold and publisher policies on author's copies are variable, this is a somewhat tenuous promise, and worst-comes-to-worst may culminate in my just buying you a copy off Amazon.