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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. A specter is haunting today's podcast. It is, of course,

the specter of the Communist Manifesto, which I'm discussing with China Mieville. Mieville

writes that many critiques of the manifesto and of communism generally are caught up in what

Mark Fisher called capitalist realism. The bedrock ideological premise that we simply cannot move

beyond the system that we live under. It's true. Capitalism has proven remarkably resilient,

and Marx and Ingalls did believe that the proletariat would put capitalism in the grave on a rather

short time scale. But today, in 2023, industrial capitalism still has not been around for as long

as feudalism was. And so, while they did fail to anticipate capitalism's multi-form capacities

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