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Essay Question In Volume 1 of Capital, Marx argued that 'capital comes dripping from head to toe, from every pore, with blood and dirt'. Why does Marx use images of blood, monsters and vampires to describe colonialism and the rise of capitalism? Discuss this in relation to the transformation of class, race and/or gender relations, and drawing on the notions of primitive accumulation and/or imperialism. Primary resources (other references on the topic is also needed in the essay. • Marx, K. 1976, Capital I: A Critique of Political Economy, Penguin, London. (See especially chapters 10 The Working Day' and 31 'Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist'). • McNally, D. 2011, Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism, Brill, Leiden. • Neocleous, M. 2003, 'The Political Economy of the Dead: Marx's Vampires', History of Political Thought, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 668-684. • Federici, S. 2004, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation, Autonomedia, New York. • Humphries, J. 1990, 'Enclosure, Common Rights, and Women: The Proletarianization of Families in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century', Journal of Economic History, vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 17-42. • Linebaugh, P. 2000. The Many-headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic, Verso, London. • Moretti, F. 1982. 'The Dialectic of Fear', New Left Review, vol. 1, no. 136, pp. 67- 85. • Kornbluh, A. 2010, 'On Marx's Victorian Novel', Mediations, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 15-38. • Bieler, A; Bozkurt, S., Crook, M., Cruttenden, P. S., Erol, E; Morton, A. D., Tansel, C. B., & Uzgören, E. 2016, 'The enduring relevance of Rosa Luxemburg's The Accumulation of Capital', Journal of International Relations and Development, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 420-447. • Bieler, A. & Morton, A. D. 'Axis of Evil or Access to Diesel?: Spaces of New