I like to imagine that, within in the now-forgotten mass of Soviet-era culture, somebody must have tried a literal take on Marx’s rhetorical flourishes.
Because Marx was obviously a fan of horror. It’s in many of his catchiest phrases – the spectre of communism, tradition which “weights like a nightmare on the brains of the living”, or capital as “dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour”
Derrida apparently devoted a [book](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0415910455/dhalgrenstevensh) to this theme; personally, I’d much rather encounter it as children’s television.