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A review by caffeinecrow
Theories of International Politics and Zombies by Daniel W. Drezner
Did not finish book. Stopped at 11%.
Stopped reading at page seventeen when the author — who ought to be familiar with what these things actually are — wrote “This project is explicitly prohuman, whereas Marxists and feminists would likely sympathize more with the zombies. To Marxists, the undead symbolize the oppressed proletariat. Unless the zombies were all undead white males, feminists would likely welcome the posthuman smashing of existing patriarchal structures.”
I wouldn’t describe myself as a Marxist, but a Marxist view of zombies would more likely view them as the bourgeois (literally leeching off of humanity and human work), or view them as an analogy for the impossibility of infinite capitalist expansion (you cannot have infinite growth of a planet with finite resources). The author’s view of feminism is especially wrong and frames it as “anti human” in contrast to this project’s “prohuman”. In my view, you cannot be truly prohuman without being a feminist.
I wouldn’t describe myself as a Marxist, but a Marxist view of zombies would more likely view them as the bourgeois (literally leeching off of humanity and human work), or view them as an analogy for the impossibility of infinite capitalist expansion (you cannot have infinite growth of a planet with finite resources). The author’s view of feminism is especially wrong and frames it as “anti human” in contrast to this project’s “prohuman”. In my view, you cannot be truly prohuman without being a feminist.