The Communist Manifesto - Aspector, Haunting

China Mievel is a writer best known for speculative fiction, novels like Kraken. But he's also a left-wing activist and a former socialist candidate for the House of Commons. He's written a lot about Marxism, most recently in a history of the Communist Manifesto called Aspector. Steve Paulson: What specifically were Marx and Engels calling for in the Communist manifesto? China Mievel: They say that this system cannot be reformed. You can't tinker with it and essentially make a world fit for humans to live in.