{"product_id":"marx-for-cats-9781478019251","title":"Marx for Cats","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the outset of \u003ci\u003eMarx for Cats\u003c\/i\u003e, 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-socia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eMarx for Cats\u003c\/i\u003e is an undomesticated and indefinable meow de coeur. You can open this book anywhere---it's a Marxist Choose Your Own Adventure---and come away as unsettled, possessed, and reflective as any transportative encounter with a cat might leave you.” -- Jordy Rosenberg, author of * Confessions of the Fox *\u003cbr\u003e“Who knew that following cats could open up history and enliven Marxism? This delightful archive of the feline in class struggle reminds us that cats are our comrades. Hand in paw, we have a world to win!” -- Jodi Dean, author of * Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Cat out of the Bag  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Menace and Menagerie: The Feudal Mode of Production and Its Cats, 800–1500\u003cbr\u003e 1. Lion Kings  25\u003cbr\u003e Intermezzo 1. The Lion-Cat Dialectic  53\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Devil’s Cats  58\u003cbr\u003e Part II. The Feline Call to Freedom: Slavery and Revolution in the Age of Empire, 1500–1800\u003cbr\u003e 3. Divine Lynxes  95\u003cbr\u003e Intermezzo 2. The Tiger-Tyger Dialectic  125\u003cbr\u003e 4. Revolutionary Tigers  129\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Our Dumb Beasts: The Rise of the Bourgeoisie and Its Appropriation of Cats, 1800–1900\u003cbr\u003e 5. Wildcats  177\u003cbr\u003e Intermezzo 3. The Cat-Mouse Dialectic  207\u003cbr\u003e 6. Domestic Cats, Communal and Servile  212\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Every Paw Can Be a Claw: Revolutions with Cats, Revolutions Against Capitalism, 1900–2000\u003cbr\u003e 7. Sabo-Tabbies  251\u003cbr\u003e Intermezzo 4. The Cat-Comrade Dialectic  288\u003cbr\u003e 8. Black Panthers  294\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Pussy Cats  329\u003cbr\u003e Notes  339\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  363\u003cbr\u003e Index  383\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48867288187223,"sku":"9781478019251","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478019251.jpg?v=1722282612","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/marx-for-cats-9781478019251","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}