Derry: Why start by invoking the specter mocking their enemies and reveling in their fear? Derry: It's an incredibly fecken and strange beginning. But then they do this amazing switchback, which is having essentially teased them, mocked them for this overdramatization. They go from sort of saying they're invoking this imaginary thing to saying this thing is real, but they're misrepresenting it.
Featuring China Miéville on The Communist Manifesto. Miéville is the author of A Spectre, Haunting: On the Communist Manifesto.
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