![]() ![]() Clarke award for best science fiction and a 2001 British Fantasy Award Iron Council (2004), winner of the Arthur C. He has published scores of highly acclaimed fiction works, such as King Rat (1998), which was nominated for both the International Horror Guild and Bram Stoker Awards for best first novel Perdido Street Station (2000), which won the 2001 Arthur C. in international relations from the London School of Economics. ![]() Miéville studied at Cambridge University and received a Ph.D. ![]() The book, incidentally, has been described - correctly so, I might add - as “a lyrical introduction and a spirited defense of the modern world’s most influential political document.” But is “The Communist Manifesto” politically relevant today? The renowned British and New York Times-bestselling author of “weird fiction” and non-fiction books China Miéville thinks so, which is why he wrote his latest book, A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto, published in May 2022 by Haymarket Books. ![]() It is also a brilliant display of literary and poetic expression by its author, the German revolutionary philosopher Karl Marx, which few, if any, political commentators since have been able to match. It influenced millions of people against capitalist oppression and toward a more just and humane social order. “The Communist Manifesto” is one of the most widely read political documents in the history of the world. ![]()
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