 China Mieville, talking with Steve Paulson. China's best known as the author of speculative fiction, for which he has won the Hugo, Locus, and Arthur C. Clarke awards many times. He's a former socialist candidate for the House of Commons, and his most recent nonfiction book about Marxism is called A Spectre, Haunting, on the Communist Manifesto. So, maybe that gives you a sense of where contemporary Marxists are coming from.