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.