A Spectre, Haunting

On the Communist Manifesto

Cover Art for 9781803282244, A Spectre, Haunting by China Mieville
ISBN: 9781803282244
Publisher: Head of Zeus
Published: 3 May, 2022
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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China Mieville's reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document- the Communist Manifesto. China Mieville's brilliant reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document- the Communist Manifesto. In 1848 a strange political tract was published by two emigres from Germany. Marx and Engels's apocalyptic vision of an insatiable system that penetrates every corner of the world, reduces every relationship to that of profit, and bursts asunder the old forms of production and of politics, is still a picture of a recognisable world, our world, and the vampiric energy of the system is once again highly contentious. The Manifesto is a text that shows no sign of fading into antiquarian obscurity. Its ideas animate in different ways the work of writers like Yanis Varoufakis, Adam Tooze, Naomi Klein and the journalist Owen Jones. China Mieville is not a writer who has been hemmed in by conventional notions of expertise or genre, and this is a strikingly imaginative take on Marx and what his most haunting book has to say to us today. This is a book haunted by ghosts, sorcery and creative destruction.

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