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> Poor Dracula, he never had a chance – not against the double-reinforced power of a Catholic Modernity. To be fair, he hoarded wealth, drank blood, and sought
by mrkeen 3y ago
> Poor Dracula, he never had a chance – not against the double-reinforced power of a Catholic Modernity.
To be fair, he hoarded wealth, drank blood, and sought eternal life. If I were in a room with Dracula and his enemies, and you told me to point at the Catholics, I'd be a bit stumped.
- 082349872349872 3y ago> Capital is dead labour, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks — KM Das Kapital was 1867; The Time Machine, 1895. They sure loved their vore in the 19th century!
- jhbadger 3y agoMarx was probably referring to the 1828 German opera "Der Vampyr" (in turn based on Polidori's 1819 English story of the same name). Polidori's Lord Ruthven was the most popular vampire in pop culture before Dracula. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Vampyr https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_Vampyr