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cantstopgrindingmyteeth's review against another edition
challenging
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medium-paced
4.25
Using Marxist theory, Fraser outlines capitalism as a social system (rather than merely economic), full of inherent contradictions, that causes it to cannibalize itself. Fraser highlights these contradictions and instances of capital cannibalization through racial, gender, political, and economic lenses. Fraser proposes a reflection on what socialism in the the modern era would have to look like to remedy past and present ills caused by cannibal capitalism. This position is reached by Fraser as she points to ways in which the Covid-19 pandemic has revealed inequalities and inequities inherent in capitalism.
This book is timely and relevant, and provides a theory of how the inherent contradictions in capitalism cause it to cannibalize both private and public goods at the expense of the masses. This book is a critical, but thought provoking framing of how to understand the society we live in and how we can begin to think about how it can be different.
This book is timely and relevant, and provides a theory of how the inherent contradictions in capitalism cause it to cannibalize both private and public goods at the expense of the masses. This book is a critical, but thought provoking framing of how to understand the society we live in and how we can begin to think about how it can be different.
crisishawtline's review against another edition
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4.5
breadandmushrooms's review against another edition
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4.0
mstine's review against another edition
5.0
Capitalism is eating itself to death, and if we don’t end it, everyone is going to die, even the rich assholes at the top. This book explains why, and in a much more eloquent way.
jacobinreads's review against another edition
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5.0
Spectacular, clear, analytically strident, and a necessary read for understanding contemporary capitalist society and the interrelated crises it produces. Fraser is enormously clearsighted in her analysis of the production and reproduction of tendencies toward crises immanent within the capitalist mode of production. A brilliant critique.