Parenti "Democarcy for the Few" and Marx

Since listening to the Wheen tape I have found Karl Marx’s analogy of capitalism and vampires very interesting. The imagery of a vampire’s thirst for blood encapsulates the exact relationship of the small percentage of extremely wealthy people (past labor) feeding off of the efforts of their employees (present labor). Parenti even makes mention of this relationship in the passage from “Democracy for the Few” that we read, but instead of vampires he chooses to describe the low level workers as slaves or serfs. Parenti states “Workers endure an exploitation of the labor as certainly as do slaves and serfs. The slave obviously toils for the enrichment of the master and receives only bare subsistence in return.” Personally, I like Marx’s ideas on the topic. I mean who hasn’t seen the scenario of the lowly employee slaving away in his 3 foot by 3 foot cubicle while his boss is smoking a big fat stogy, eating a huge steak, and all the while counting wads of money?
I believe this analogy that Marx has laid at our feet can be taken a step further. We all see the employee having his lifeblood sucked out of him, but what happens when his soul is drained leaving nothing but his proverbial shell? I’d like to equate this to the old pink slip, UNemployment. What happens to this capitalistic waste, this byproduct of cutbacks approved to trim the fat and make the company more agile in this ever-evolving corporate market? I propose that the unemployed become undead as well, not in the sense of vampires but more like zombies. These newly dead victims of capitalist society need something not just to get them by, but also to help them rebound. And what is going to help them? Why the tax dollars of their old co-workers in the form of welfare and food stamps. Aided by the government, the unemployed rip off the body parts of the employed that they need. Once the necessary body parts are acquired, which never happens, the unemployed rejoin the workforce (the reason why they are zombies and not vampires). So now the employed workers of the capitalist system find themselves smack in the middle of the horror movie of the century being attacked from both ends of the corporate ladder; all the while trying to amass enough funds to someday retire.