Literary recommendations: Ken MacLeod

[Justin Schwartz]

>
>My favorite -- as far as I know, unwritten -- alternative history premise
>is that, rather than ending up exiled in London, Marx ends up in Brooklyn
>or Queens, and rather than filing dispatches for American papers, he files
>them for British ones. Rather than spending all that time in the British
>Library, he spends it in the NYC public library and analyzes American
>capitalism, not British. With that shift, the subsequent Marxist
>revolution does not occur in Russia but in Brazil. From that "small
>change", the 20th century would have looked different indeed. Call it
>"Marx in America".
>

This basic idea is a minor background reference in William Gibson and Bruce 
Sterling's The Difference Engine. There was a Manhattan Commune . . .

jks

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