...of production.' 3 1 Marx, Capital, pp. 200-1. s Ibid. p. 393. To sum up the position Marx assures us that ' capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like,...labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.' 1 It is 'the vampire which will not lose its hold on the labourer so long as there is a muscle, a nerve,...

...Ibid. p. 393. 3 Ibid. p. 793. 316 DEMOCRACY AND LIBERTY en. vin. To sum up the position Marx assures us that ' capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like,...labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks.' 1 It is 'the vampire which will not lose its hold on the labourer so long as there is a muscle, a nerve,...

...its constant factor, the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount of surpluslabour. Capital is dead labour, that vampire-like^ only lives...labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. The time during which the labourer works, is the time during which the capitalist consumes the labour-power...

...its constant factor, the means of production, absorb the greatest possible amount of surplusCapital is dead labour, that vampire-like, only lives by sucking...labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. The time during which the labourer works, is the time during which the capitalist consumes the labour-power...

...and sell the family dinner for pocket money. Marx's view appears clearly in the following messages: Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives...labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. The time during which the labourer works, is the time during which the capitalist consumes the labour-power...

...and sell the family dinner for pocket money. Marx's view appears clearly in the following messages: Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives...labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks. The time during which the labourer works, is the time during which the capitalist consumes the labour-power...

...characterize Mr. Vincy, Karl Marx uses the vampire to describe the way industrialists exploit their workers: "Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only...living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks."97 Later in the same chapter, he refers to the vampire again: The prolongation of the working-day...

...own cells. creates its own self-destruction. And in an image familiar from Capiial. where he writes that capital is "dead labour. that vampire-like. only...labour. and lives the more. the more labour it sucks" lvolume I. part iii. chapter X. section IL he declares that the "new bourgeois order" of the nineteenth...

...only products but workers. Twelve years later Marx would take the same risk and use similar imagery: "Capital is dead labour, that vampire-like, only lives...living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks."24 Melville's two versions of "The Birth-mark" tell us much about his creative readings of Hawthorne's...

...desire for material wealth. As Karl Marx put it, "capital is dead labour which, vampirelike, lives only by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks" (342). Accordingly, workers become vampires once they have been bitten by a vampire (capital), for...