![]() ![]() ![]() Nine years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Karl Marx, with a fuzzy beard like pop-doctor Andrew Weill, has become a cuddly, kitschy, innocuous object of fun, nostalgia and irony. It's cloth-bound, with luxuriously heavy pages, a red ribbon for marking pages, a cover painting, in socialist-realism style, by the trendy New York artists Vitaly Komar and Alex Melamid, and an exhortation on the back: "Workers of the world, unite!" Barnes & Noble, reports Publisher's Weekly, will promote it heavily at the cash register: communism as an impulse purchase. ![]() Has it come to this? In celebration of the 150th anniversary of "The Communist Manifesto," Verso Press has announced publication - on May Day, naturally - of what it calls an "upscale, sybarite's edition" of the famous revolutionary tract by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. ![]()
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