Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planetand What We Can Do about It

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

Author: Nancy Fraser
Publisher: Verso
Published: 09/20/2022
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.57h x 5.82w x 0.73d
ISBN13: 9781839761232
ISBN10: 1839761237
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | History & Theory | General
- Political Science | Political Economy
- Political Science | Political Ideologies | Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism

About the Author

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%.