A Spectre, Haunting

By: China Miéville

Narrated by: China Miéville

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 Head of Zeus

Piketty Does It Again

Piketty has a talent I haven't encountered since reading Marx. The reader not only gets the material of the text but also the subtext. Reading books like this helps us understand that capitalism is built on exploitation and is not an entirely natural phenomenon

Brilliant analysis

Mieville is at once critical and generous, and offers an explanation of a text that is hard to grasp sometimes, but not when he explains it.
Great work!