Friday, December 26th, 2008
How do you say “Dialectical Materialism” in Japanese?
Here’s a good candidate for the WTF?! Files:
Das Kapital turned into a manga comic
Karl Marx’s seminal anti-capitalist tome Das Kapital is to be reincarnated as a Japanese manga comic.By Danielle Demetriou in Tokyo
Last Updated: 12:04PM GMT 18 Nov 2008Das Kapital, the manga version, is due to hit bookstores across Japan next month with its complex ideas ambitiously repackaged into digestible comic format.
The appearance of the famous economic treatise in the form of a comic is the latest sign of a resurgence of leftwing literature in Japan as the world’s second largest economy sinks into recession.
The rise of part-time workers and increasing erosion of financial security have fuelled a boom in Communist Party membership in Japan along with a fashionable revival of anti-capitalist literature.
Heh. Mangaka of the world, unite!
Right.
