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Welcome to the Dig, a podcast from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm broadcasting

from Providence, Rhode Island. A specter is haunting today's podcast. It is, of course,

the specter of the Communist Manifesto, which I'm discussing with China Mieville. Mieville writes

that many critiques of the Manifesto and of Communism generally are caught up in what Mark Fisher

called Capitalist Realism, the bedrock ideological premise that we simply cannot move beyond the system

that we live under. It's true, capitalism has proven remarkably resilient and Marx and Ingalls

did believe that the proletariat would put capitalism in the grave on a rather short time scale.

But today, in 2023, industrial capitalism still has not been around for as long as feudalism was.

And so, while they did fail to anticipate capitalism's multi-form capacities to stabilize

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