CultureAn emergent genre explores how class conflict is always part ghost story, and how the only answer is insurrection.Of all the lines ever written about economic theory, probably none is as chillingly vivid as Marx’s metaphor in Capital: “Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.” It might be Marx’s greatest literary turn. In precisely encapsulating an idea, he also manages to invoke a feeling: Capitalism makes us feel haunted, whether by our own alienation and precarity, the specter of the exploited...…CultureAn emergent genre explores how class conflict is always part ghost story, and how the only answer is insurrection.Of all the lines ever written about economic theory, probably none is as chillingly vivid as Marx’s metaphor in Capital: “Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.” It might be Marx’s greatest literary turn. In precisely encapsulating an idea, he also manages to invoke a feeling: Capitalism makes us feel haunted, whether by our own alienation and precarity, the specter of the exploited...WW…