Cannibal Capitalism
How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet - and What We Can Do About It
Published on 20. September 2022
208 pages
978-1-83976-124-9 (ISBN)
Description
Shortlisted for the Deutscher Memorial Prize 2023
Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life-guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for each other, and gutting the practice of politics. In this tightly argued and urgent volume, leading Marxist feminist theorist Nancy Fraser charts the voracious appetite of capital, tracking it from crisis point to crisis point, from ecological devastation to the collapse of democracy, from racial violence to the devaluing of care work. These crisis points all come to a head in Covid-19, which Fraser argues can help us envision the resistance we need to end the feeding frenzy.
What we need, she argues, is a wide-ranging socialist movement that can recognize the rapaciousness of capital - and starve it to death.
Capital is currently cannibalizing every sphere of life-guzzling wealth from nature and racialized populations, sucking up our ability to care for each other, and gutting the practice of politics. In this tightly argued and urgent volume, leading Marxist feminist theorist Nancy Fraser charts the voracious appetite of capital, tracking it from crisis point to crisis point, from ecological devastation to the collapse of democracy, from racial violence to the devaluing of care work. These crisis points all come to a head in Covid-19, which Fraser argues can help us envision the resistance we need to end the feeding frenzy.
What we need, she argues, is a wide-ranging socialist movement that can recognize the rapaciousness of capital - and starve it to death.
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English
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London
United Kingdom
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978-1-83976-124-9 (9781839761249)
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Cannibal Capitalism
How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet - and What We Can Do About It
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10/2023
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How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet - and What We Can Do About It
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Nancy Fraser is Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research. She is the author of Fortunes of Feminism and The Old is Dying and the New Cannot be Born, and co-author of Capitalism: A Conversation and Feminism for the 99%.
Content
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface: Cannibal Capitalism: Are We Toast?
- 1. Omnivore: Why We Need to Expand Our Conception of Capitalism
- 2. Glutton for Punishment: Why Capitalism Is Structurally Racist
- 3. Care Guzzler: Why Social Reproduction Is a Major Site of Capitalist Crisis
- 4. Nature in the Maw: Why Ecopolitics Must Be Trans-environmental and Anti-capitalist
- 5. Butchering Democracy: Why Political Crisis Is Capital's Red Meat
- 6. Food for Thought: What Should Socialism Mean in the Twenty-First Century?
- Epilogue: Macrophage: Why COVID Is a Cannibal Capitalist Orgy
- Notes
- Index
