米维尔(China Miéville)对现代世界最具争议、最持久的政治文件《共产党宣言》的精彩解读。
1848年,两位德国流亡者出版了一本奇怪的政治书籍。马克思和恩格斯关于一个永不满足的体系的启示录式愿景,这个体系渗透到世界的每一个角落,把每一种关系都简化为利润关系,打破旧的生产和政治形式,仍然是一个可识别的世界,我们的世界,这个体系的吸血鬼能量再次引起高度争议。
该宣言是一个文本,没有任何迹象表明它会消失在古董的朦胧之中。它的思想以不同的方式活跃了雅尼斯·瓦鲁法基斯、亚当·图兹、内奥米·克莱因和记者欧文·琼斯等作家的作品。
中国米维尔不是一个被传统的专业知识或流派观念所束缚的作家,这是对马克思及其最令人难忘的书今天要告诉我们的一个惊人的富有想象力的理解。
这是一本充满鬼魂、巫术和创造性破坏的书。
A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto
China Miéville’s brilliant reading of the modern world’s most controversial and enduring political document: the Communist Manifesto.
In 1848 a strange political tract was published by two emigres from Germany. Marx and Engels’s apocalyptic vision of an insatiable system that penetrates every corner of the world, reduces every relationship to that of profit, and bursts asunder the old forms of production and of politics, is still a picture of a recognisable world, our world, and the vampiric energy of the system is 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 Miéville 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.
This is a book haunted by ghosts, sorcery and creative destruction.
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