Marx and the Metaphors of the Gothic

The gothic imagery in the work of Marx and Engels is often used to invoke blood and vampires and and ghosts. I do think there's a little danger here which is that we over-invest stuff like our cultural bump around us with political meaning, says Julian Zelizer. "I'm all for political readings but I do think we need to be a little bit serious about about kind of relative proximity to political traction," he adds.