What Made You Want to Write This Book?

The book was spurred by a sense of um epochal exasperation because I have for so long sort of sought out if you like kind of good faith argument and good faith debate. The thing that struck me about the manifesto is that more than any other of Marx's major works it is treated with this kind of intense lack of interest and seriousness. Most of the criticisms of the manifesto including from people who should really know better are just embarrassing they're embarrassing, he says.