Description: Marx for Cats : A Radical Bestiary, Paperback by La Berge, Leigh Claire, ISBN 1478019255, ISBN-13 9781478019251, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "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 revealan 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"--
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Book Title: Marx for Cats : A Radical Bestiary
Number of Pages: 408 Pages
Publication Name: Marx for Cats : a Radical Bestiary
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2023
Item Height: 0.9 in
Subject: Cats / General, General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.8 Oz
Subject Area: Pets, Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Leigh Claire La Berge
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
