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 1200-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 itself, 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.
General
| Imprint: |
Duke University Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| Firstpublished: |
2023 |
| Authors: |
Leigh Claire La Berge
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| Dimensions: |
203 x 127mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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| Pages: |
416 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4780-1661-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-4780-1661-2 |
| Barcode: |
9781478016618 |
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