Staff Pick
If you've never read the Communist Manifesto before, you should read this version; if you've got passages of the Communist Manifesto memorized and you regularly recite them to your roommates at the dinner table, you should still read this version. In a place and time where it's easier to picture the end of the world than the end of capitalism, it takes more than knowledge of theory to cut through the malaise — it takes imagination, insight, and radical hope. This is the uniqueness that Meiville brings to the table in A Spectre, Haunting: a vision that hacks away at the veneer of capitalist realism with a machete, leaving the reader aghast and amazed at the idea of a world built not on exploitation and coercion, but on collaboration, acceptance, and, well... love. (That's how you know that it's a worthwhile piece of political theory, by the way: when it all circles back to love.) Recommended By CJ H., Powells.com
Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
China Mi ville's riveting engagement with the Communist Manifesto offers a lyrical introduction and a spirited defense of the modern world's most influential political document. Few written works can so confidently claim to have shaped the course of history as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's Manifesto of the Communist Party. Since first rattling the gates of the ruling order in 1848, this incendiary pamphlet has never ceased providing fuel for the fire in the hearts of those who dream of a better world. Nor has it stopped haunting the nightmares of those who sit atop the vastly unequal social system it condemns.
In this strikingly imaginative introduction, China Mi ville provides readers with a guide to understanding the Manifesto and the many specters it has conjured. Through his unique and unorthodox reading, Mi ville offers a spirited defense of the enduring relevance of Marx and Engels' ideas.
Presented along with the full text of the Communist Manifesto, Mi ville's guide has something to offer first-time readers, revolutionary partisans, and even the most hard-nosed skeptics.
Synopsis
China Mi ville's strikingly imaginative new introduction to the Communist Manifesto offers both a critical appraisal and a spirited defense of the modern world's most influential political document.
Few written works can so confidently claim to have shaped the course of history as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's Manifesto of the Communist Party. Since first rattling the gates of the ruling order in 1848, this incendiary pamphlet has never ceased providing fuel for the fire in the hearts of those who dream of a better world. Nor has it stopped haunting the nightmares of those who sit atop the vastly unequal social system it condemns.
Mi ville provides readers with a guide to understanding the Manifesto and the many specters it has conjured. Through his unique and unorthodox reading, Mi ville offers a spirited defense of the enduring relevance of Marx and Engels' ideas.
Presented along with the full text of the Communist Manifesto, Mi ville's guide has something to offer first-time readers, revolutionary partisans, and even the most hard-nosed skeptics.