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A Spectre, Haunting

By: China Miéville
Narrated by: China Miéville
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In 1848, The Communist Manifesto was published by two émigrés from Germany. Marx and Engels' apocalyptic vision of an insatiable system that penetrates every corner of the world reduces every relationship to that of profit, and burst asunder the old forms of production and of politics. It is still a recognisable picture of our world—the vampiric energy of the system being 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.

©2022 China Mieville (P)2022 W. F. Howes 20th Century Modern Political Science Politics & Government Socialism Capitalism Liberalism
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Most relevant
This dissection is relevant for our time. we'll worth the read and opinion. May it spark debate and action.

An important and relevant account and view

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Some of these reviews, I think, refer to an old narration of this book. The current one is excellent, and so is the content of the book. Listen!

Great narration

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A superb deconstruction of capitalism and communism through a very sharp lense. A great intro to Marxism, and the never ending battle between the overclass and underclass.

Capitalists won't like this...

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Well read easy to understand makes the manifesto accessible no matter your experience in leftist literature
Gives a good background and insight into the authors and the historical period in which it was wrote,

Fantastic

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I expected the contents to be good considering the pedigree of the author, but earlier reviews led me to expect a poor reading.
I did not find this to be the case- it is both clear and well articulated.

A better reading than I expected

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