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“ It seems to me that the natural [economic] counterpoint to fantasy is actually horror. Compare The Lord of the Rings, where the "free peoples" are the social classes of an ideal feudal society (clergy, aristocracy, peasants, and artisans) being threatened by the industrialists of Mordor and Isengard (wouldn't a Marxist treatment have Sauron's victory followed by a rebellion of the orcs and their establishment of a workers' state?) with Dracula, where the wicked feudal lord draining the very blood of the peasantry is opposed by a kind of joint stock company whose shareholders are a cross section of the international bourgeoisie. ”

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