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> 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
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> 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