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gMk ■ The Battalion Nation Wednesday • March Communist Manifesto on Madison Avenue NEW YORK (AP) —You have come a long way, comrade. A stylish new edition of The Communist Manifesto aims to make Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels the latest in radical chic. The slender volume is being republished as a glossy, $13 hardcover for release in New York and London on May Day. The fashionable department store Barneys is thinking about it for a window display. The publisher says the 1848 work speaks to a sense on Wall Street that the party can not go on forever. “There’s a sense of anxiety tied to the millennium. People don’t believe things will just carry on, with markets rising forever,” says Colin Robinson, head of Verso publishers, which is printing 20,000 copies on the 150th anniversary of the manifesto. “Marx’s de scription of a capitalist system prone to shocks and convulsions captures that mood.” The revolutionary book, now with a rippling red -flag cover, has become fodder for capitalist fantasy: With a handle attached, the book could make a snazzy accessoiy to a designer dress, says Simon Doo- nen, creative director of Barneys on Madison Avenue. One could sashay toward the new millennium, the 19th- century words of Marx and Engels dangling at one’s side. Doonen is toying with the idea of featuring the Man ifesto in the window as “conceptual art.” His assistants are looking for the right lipstick. Ar ound Wall Street, the very capital of capitalism, the Borders bookstore at the World Trade Center plans to give the book center display in the front of the store. Barnes & Noble will likewise market the Manifesto at its 483 superstores as “a storefront feature.” “Enough time has passed since the fall of the Iron Curtain so Marxism can again be seen as a utopian phi losophy,” says John Kulka, a Barnes & Noble merchan dise manager. Written during the Industrial Revolution, the Man ifesto called the working class to arms against the bourgeoisie. The Manifesto opens with the famous words, “A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of Com munism.” It predicted that a catastrophic cycle of booms and busts would befall the new free-market system. The 23-page pamphlet was “the most influential sin gle piece of political writing since the French Revolu tion,” historian Eric Hobsbawm, the intellectual guru of Britain’s socialists, writes in the introduction to the new, 96-page edition. Computers said to make counterfeiting er AUSTIN (AP) —The prolifera tion of cheaper, more powerful, high-quality personal computers is leading to a boom in counterfeit documents, Texas law enforce ment officials say. The fake papers — including proof-of-insurance cards, car titles and auto registration and inspec tion stickers — are costing Texas businesses and citizens millions of dollars a year. “The advent of desktop printing has made potential counterfeiters out of anyone who has some de gree of computer expertise,” said DPS Commander Marshall Caskey, who conducted a seminar Monday to help police officers recognize the increasingly realistic fakes. For example, the Texas Depart ment of Public Safety helped con fiscate more than 14,000 counter feit insurance cards in 1996. At an average cost of $550 per policy, that represented nearly $8 million in lost premiums. That also could have been 14,000 more people driving with out insurance. Texans ultimately pay the price in the form of high er premiums. Better printers and copiers have made blurry driver’s licenses and blotchy birth certificates a thing of the past. “There are a lot of times that I have to look at something a second and a third time to make sure it’s counterfeit," said Cpl. Billy Don Ivey of the DPS’ motor vehicle in spection counterfeit fraud division. Enforcing counterfeit fraud is tough because officials often do not know who they are dealing with. "The key to fraud is not being identified,” Caskey said. And with six or seven phony identities, coun terfeiters manage to do The DPS lias 20 ti signed to counterfeit^ said that’s not nearlyf cover the state. "We save thestateal ey by catching these need the resources to do: Counterfeiters can f aking just about any ficials say, from ticketsu events to airline ticketsu baseball cards. 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