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Summary:

"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"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Cat out of the Bag
• Menace and Menagerie: The Feudal Mode of Production and Its Cats, 800-1500, CE
• Lion Kings
• The Devil's Cats
• The Feline Call to Freedom: Slavery and Revolution in an Age of Empire, 1500-1800
• Divine Lynxes
• Revolutionary Tigers
• Our Dumb Beasts: The Rise of the Bourgeoisie and Its Appropriation of Cats, 1800-1900
• Wildcats
• Domestic Cats, Communal and Servile
• Every Paw Can Be a Claw: Revolutions with Cats, Revolutions against Capitalism, 1900-2000
• Sabo-Tabbies
• Black Panthers
• Pussy Cats.

Author/Creator:

La Berge, Leigh Claire , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Marx for cats: a radical bestiary [by La Berge, L.C.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Marx for cats [by La Berge, L.C.] (Durham : Duke University Press, 2023 — ISBN 9781478019251; ISBN 9781478016618; LCCN 2022056743; OCLC Number 1355033610)

Subjects:

Social structure in literature

Social classes in literature

Communism in literature

Cats in literature

Capitalism in literature

Literature — History and criticism

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 394 pages) : illustrations

Call Numbers:

PN56.S654 L334 2023eb

ISBNs:

1478023880
9781478023883 (electronic bk.)
9781478019251 (paperback) [Invalid]
1478019255 (paperback) [Invalid]
9781478016618 (hardcover) [Invalid]
1478016612 (hardcover) [Invalid]

Other Standard Numbers:

Standard Technical Report Number: (Coutts)066776037

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2022056744

OCLC Numbers:

1394998534