China Mieville's brilliant reading of the modern world's most controversial and enduring political document: the Communist Manifesto.The Manifesto is a text that shows no sign of fading into antiquarian obscurity. Its ideas animate in different ways the work of writers like Yanis Varoufakis, Adam Tooze, and Naomi Klein. A strikingly imaginative take on Marx and what his most haunting book has to say to us today.