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.