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    Marxist mechanics

    Jun 19, 2022 2 minutes
    by ANDREW PAUL WOOD

    A SPECTRE, HAUNTING: ON THE COM-MUNIST MANIFESTO, by China Miéville (Head of Zeus, $32.99)

    nce upon a time, 1848 to be exact, two Germans wrote a story that starts with the Victorian gothic: “A spectre is haunting Europe.” It then slays some dragons and concludes with a magical utopia. No, not the Grimm brothers, but Karl Marx and.

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