 Marx defined capital as " dead labour which , vampire @-@ like , lives only by sucking living labour , and lives the more , the more labour it sucks " . Werner Herzog , in his Nosferatu the Vampyre , gives this political interpretation an extra ironic twist when protagonist Jonathon Harker , a middle @-@ class solicitor , becomes the next vampire ; in this way the capitalist bourgeois becomes the next parasitic class . 
