Cannibal Capitalism, Nancy Fraser
Cannibal Capitalism, Nancy Fraser
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Cannibal Capitalism
How our System is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet – and What We Can Do About It

Author: Nancy Fraser

Narrator: Kate Udall

Unabridged: 7 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/20/2022


Synopsis

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.

About Nancy Fraser

Nancy Fraser is Henry and Louise A. Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social Research. A vocal supporter of the International Women's Strike, she coined the phrase "feminism for the 99 percent."


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nathan on October 30, 2024

loved this reframing of capitalism as a social model - it gives a wider context to the value and direction of surplus, instead of a metric for freedom for all, it’s solely a method of control and accumulation of power. Really shatters the myth of capitalism equaling freedom of choice.......more

Goodreads review by sologdin on October 05, 2022

Eminently reasonable, this text seeks out further 'hidden abodes' of capitalism beyond the exploitation of wage labor, in the non-economic realms of gender-dominated carework, environmental extractivism, racial expropriation of those marked out as homo sacer, and the political processes of democrati......more

Goodreads review by Morgan on August 18, 2023

GREAT BOOK. So…. Critical analysis of capitalism is back. And…. Now it’s being integrated with green ecology, feminism, queer theory and anti-racism. And… We’re having a little moment with it. It’s feeling VERY 90’s (in this regard). The kids are digging theory and burning cop cars again. Now if y’all can P......more

Goodreads review by Charlotte on January 14, 2025

Reading this has increased my awareness of all the shit that goes on in this world and how it's all connected. I'm happy to have learned so much, but also immensely distressed because of it......more

Goodreads review by Laura on January 12, 2025

Kirja, joka kaikkien yhteiskunnassa toimivien (ja elävien) kannattaisi lukea. asap.......more