I have found Derrick's Specters of Marx to be a helpful and even an essential book, but it has been mostly neglected by religion and Bible scholars. In the conference sessions on Derrida (at the Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting in Toronto, November 2002) from which this volume originates, Specters was not covered, and Marx himself was scarcely mentioned in papers other than mine. This fact is perhaps further evidence of that post-Soviet "death of Marx" which is precisely the theme of Specters.