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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
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