مصاحبه ای با نویسندهء کتاب “مانیفست کمونیست در طول اعصار” , چین میویل
The Communist Manifesto was first penned by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels in 1848, a year simmering with revolutionary possibility in Europe. In the years since, the text has served as a refuge, and an inspiration, for those betrayed by the free market.
It has ebbed in and out of popularity, its sales rising by 700 percent in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis, and may be, according to some accounts, the second best-selling book in the world after the Bible.
It’s a phantom, always lingering, not quite out of sight. China Miéville writes speculative fiction, but his latest book, “A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto,” traces the subversive text’s place in the world throughout history.
This week, he chats with Brooke about why the text refuses to fade from our consciousness, and how best to read it at this moment in time.
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