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A political and poetic wondering/wandering about the relevance and context of re-reading Marx 150 years after the publication of The Communist Manifesto
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Michael Blum, David Thorne, Penelope Buitenhuis, Nurit Melamed, Jeff Derksen, Sabine Bitter, Santjit Sethi, Laurens Tan, Wilhelm Shmidt, Michael Blum, Margarita Paksa
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