A Spectre, Haunting: On The Communist Manifesto

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Breht O'Shea

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🗓️ 6 March 2023

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Bestselling author and literary critic China Miéville joins Breht to discuss his newest book A Spectre, Haunting: On The Communist Manifesto

Together, they discuss the literary merits of the famous text, the historical context in which Marx and Engels wrote it, the increasing contemporary relevance of the Manifesto, and much more!

Outro music: "9-5ers Anthem" by Aesop Rock

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0:00.0	Hello everybody and welcome back to RevLeft Radio. I have a very exciting episode today.
0:10.6	I have on the show the one and only China Mi A-Ville to talk about his newest book,
0:15.3	A Specter Haunting on the Communist Manifesto. I absolutely just loved this book.
0:21.1	I think it engages with the text and an interesting and really in depth way,
0:25.9	especially for a new generation of people coming up that might be interested in the Communist Manifesto
0:31.0	and the politics implied and contained therein. It was a real pleasure and an honor to be able to get
0:37.0	China to come on the show and discuss it. He's a wonderful comrade, a wonderful person, a wonderful
0:42.2	author, and I absolutely loved this book. I didn't get to mention it in the show, but you can find
0:47.5	the book anywhere I think in the US. It's released by Haymarket. I also found the audiobook to be very
0:54.2	good because China reads the book itself and it's always great when the author can read the text.
0:58.2	So I highly recommend anybody at all that likes this conversation or that once three engage with
1:04.2	the Communist Manifesto, once again to check out the book A Specter Haunting on the Communist Manifesto
1:09.2	by China Mi A-Ville and this discussion is about that book. I also want to give a shout out to my friend
1:15.2	John Greenway, aka the Lit Crit Guy, co-host of the podcast, The Horror Vanguard, many time visitor of
1:23.2	the Rev. Left Show. He's been a guest on multiple occasions here and it was actually through him that I
1:28.3	was able to make this interview happen and I think people might know that China is someone that is
1:34.9	not necessarily the easiest guest to get on your podcast for various reasons and so I was very,
1:40.4	very happy that through John I was able to contact him and that he agreed to come on the show
1:45.4	and what you're going to hear is a wonderful conversation about his book A Specter Haunting and
1:50.3	about the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels, the context in which they wrote the relevance of
1:55.1	that text for us today, how China and myself both came to the Manifesto first engaged with it,
2:01.3	it's impact on us, etc. And I also want to, it's not going to be in this episode but very soon
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