Is that still in print?” a woman on the station platform asked me enthusiastically when she noticed I was reading the Marxist classic, Ralph Miliband’s The State in Capitalist Society.
“I doubt it,” I said. “It’s been sitting on my bookshelf for nearly 40 years. But people are selling it on Amazon for more than £200. That’s the power of capitalism for you.” She laughed.
I don’t think I would get that price for my copy. Under the Amazon product description guidelines, it might squeak in as “acceptable”, with a badly worn cover and extensive pencil underlinings.
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