Life under capitalism is the experience of horror — and there is no better guide to it than Karl Marx.
The diagnosis invites the big question: how do we orient ourselves politically within a social dynamic whose very essence is horror?
This is a question taken up by Karl Marx himself, whose writing overflows with tropes and figures born of the gothic, and it is one worth revisiting for Halloween.
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