The Life of the Manifesto

The life of the manifesto is tied to historic and social upheavals disappearing from view at certain times of relativies and re-emerging at others. In 2008 with the great you know economic crisis Amazon reported a huge spike in sales of the manifesto now very occasionally you get a counter example like there was a moment of interest in the manifesto when it's 150th birthday even though that was essentially a pretty reactionary moment. Marshall Berman stresses this as does Mike Davis the the manifesto the manifesto shouts most loudly at a moment when there is when there is struggle and it becomes it is accompanying the soundtrack to that struggle and so on.