Cannibal Capitalism

A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism's destructive appetite, and a rallying cry for a socialist politics that can save our world

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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Nancy Fraser is Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research, Einstein Fellow of the city of Berlin, and holder of the "Global Justice" Chair at the Collège d’études mondiales in Paris. Her books include Redistribution or Recognition; Adding Insult to Injury; Scales of Justice; Justice Interruptus; and Unruly Practices.

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A trenchant look at contemporary capitalism’s insatiable appetite - and a rallying cry for everyone who wants to stop it from devouring our world

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface: Cannibal Capitalism: Are We Toast?

Ch. 1: Omnivore: why we need to expand our conception of capitalism

Ch. 2:Glutton for Punishment: why capitalism is structurally racist

Ch. 3: Care-Guzzler: why social reproduction is a major site of capitalist crisis

Ch. 4: Nature in the Maw: why ecopolitics must be trans-environmental and anti-capitalist

Ch. 5: Butchering Democracy: why political crisis is capital’s red meat

Ch. 6: Food for thought: what should socialism mean in the 21st century?

Epilogue: Macrophage: why Covid is a perfect storm of capitalist irrationality and injustice