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The Dig: The Manifesto w/ China Miéville

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Marx and Engels' Minimum Program

Karl Marx and Engels put forward a minimum program, what one might call non reformist reforms. Some of these still work but some have been superseded by history. I find that a fairly compelling model of a way to do day to day politics as someone who is committed to rupture politics. To me, almost, almost more than revolution, which is not to resile from the word revolution, I find it more productive,. The word rupture, which recurs in the manifesto, is the word that I keep returning to, that keeps being important to me. It would be the first ever beyond certain kind of non classic.

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