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… the damned are too proud to submit to limit. They will not bow the knee to the finite, least of all to their own creatureliness.
Terry Eagleton (2010:26) On Evil (© Terry Eagleton. Reproduced with permission of the Licensor through PLSclear)
The Devil is the longest-standing, most consistently used figure deployed to voice a critique of capitalist accumulation and organisation (Lizardo 2009): predating, for instance, Karl Marx’s penchant for gothic figures such as vampires, spectres, werewolves, gravediggers and zombies by several hundred years. A proliferation of accounts and accusations of individuals selling their soul and signing blood pacts for unholy personal gain shows the Devil to have already been inextricably bound up in ...
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