EAN: 9781478019251

MARX FOR CATS - LEIGH CLAIRE LA BERGE KARTONIER...

At the outset of Marx for Cats  Leigh Claire La Berge declares that all history is the history
of cat struggle. Revising the medieval bestiary form to meet Marxist critique  La Berge follows
feline footprints through Western economic history to reveal an animality at the heart of
Marxism. She draws on a twelve-hundred-year arc spanning capitalism's feudal prehistory  its
colonialist and imperialist ages  the bourgeois revolutions that supported capitalism  and the
communist revolutions that opposed it to outline how cats have long been understood as
creatures of economic critique and liberatory possibility. By attending to the repeated
archival appearance of lions  tigers  wildcats  and sabo-tabbies  La Berge argues that felines
are central to how Marxists have imagined the economy  and by asking what humans and animals
owe each other in a moment of ecological crisis  La Berge joins current debates about the need
for and possibility of eco-socialism. In this playful and generously illustrated radical
bestiary  La Berge demonstrates that class struggle is ultimately an interspecies
collaboration.

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