He starts the video off with the obligatory lib “totalitarianism 42069 gorillion dead” but I promise he actually sincerely engages with Marx’s writing later on from a perspective of somebody that’s done a lot of research on occult writings.

It’s a pretty interesting video, I’ve never heard somebody compare Marx’s Capital to a gothic horror novel and he does have a point when he says some people start looking at Marxism in an almost religious way (looking at you Gonzaloids).

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    7 months ago

    I think it’s established that Marx used vampires, werewolves, blood, zombies, sorcerers, and the undead etc. as metaphors for the monstrous nature of capital. He also threw in comments about commodities coming to life on their own and a reference to “table turning,” which is a seance/spiritualist gimmick.