Frightful Hobgoblins

Conjurings, spells, sorcerers, and the Communist Manifesto

FOR THE NEW REPUBLIC, I’ve reviewed China Miéville’s A Spectre Haunting, a critical exploration of the Communist Manifesto and an argument for its seismic importance:

For as long as radicals have squabbled over the meaning of Marx and Engels’s works, there has been a lot of fretting over whether the revolution they herald is inevitable. After all, the Ma…