Cannibal Capitalism

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

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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%.

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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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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