![]() ![]() However, salvaging the possibility of such radical love, Miéville insists, will likely take some revolutionary hatred. Fox News fearmongers, whose vitriol is animated by their hatred of the poor, of immigrants, of non-heteronormative communities and anyone else who isn’t a Christian ethnonationalist, cannot contain or even properly name true communism because the movement’s real basis is fidelity to radical love. ![]() Instead, the focus of this work is its radical and opposite number: true communism. Therefore, what concerns Miéville isn’t the nonsensical right-wing propaganda that spuriously passes under the epithet of communism. The title thus reflects the most important aspect of this primer: the Manifesto’s enduring legacy and necessity in the contemporary moment. If we normally think of ghosts as rooted to a particular time and place, then this specter is as rootless and shifting as capital itself. Miéville’s recasting of the opening words of the Manifesto for his title is particularly telling in that “a spectre, haunting” offers a continual, omnipresent, global apparition. And for the more familiar and academically minded, a large number of footnotes flesh out the more nuanced critical arguments that Miéville makes and engages with. ![]() The volume also includes the 1888 English translation of the Manifesto, along with the authors’ prefaces that accompanied later editions. CHINA MIÉVILLE’S A Spectre, Haunting serves as a critical introduction to Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) for new readers: the first half offers a series of essays by Miéville that acquaint readers with the Manifesto’s form, history, and arguments, while the second half argues for its continuing relevance. ![]()
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