Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle
Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle
Capital's Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle
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The fact that communism did not prevail does not mean we are still in capitalism. Capitalist relations are undergoing systemic transformation and becoming something that might even be worse. Bringing together analyses from different fields--law, technology, Marxism, and psychoanalysis--Jodi Dean shows the direction the contemporary world is heading: neofeudalism. Feudalism isn't just a metaphor. It's the operating system for the present. Politics and plunder thrive in the capitalist pursuit of profit, and the many are bound to serve the few, coerced into a system of rents, destruction, and hoarding driven by privilege and dependence. The question is: In a society of serfs and servants, how do we get free? With the rise of neofeudalism, and as more and more workers are drawn into the service sector--from nurses to Uber and delivery drivers--Dean argues that we can see the emergence of a new vanguard, the class that can lead the struggle for liberation from oppression and exploitation: what she calls the servant vanguard.
About the Author
About the Author
Jodi Dean teaches political, feminist, and media theory in Geneva, New York. She has written or edited thirteen books, including The Communist Horizon, Crowds and Party and COMRADE.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
Introduction: Capital's Grave Chapter 1 What the Grundrisse Tells Us About Uber Chapter 2 Forwards Can Be Backwards: On Transition and Temporality Chapter 3 Neofeudalism's Basic Features Chapter 4 The Subject Supposed to Care Conclusion The Servant Vanguard
"A piercing look at how capitalism is killing itself as it entangles us in a web of techno-feudal power relations."
--Yanis Varoufakis, author of Technofeudalism "Dean provides the most rigorous account of what a neofeudal society entails. Every page is a provocation, every sentence is a delight"
--Corey Robin, author of The Enigma of Clarence Thomas "Dean's new book gives us plenty to talk about"
--Ed Meek, Arts Fuse "Dean's new book delivers critical insights on humanity and society."
--Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch "Seeks to update Marx for a world that Dean thinks is starting to look less like the classical industrial capitalism he wrote about than a kind of high-tech feudalism."
--Ben Burgis, UnHerd
--Yanis Varoufakis, author of Technofeudalism "Dean provides the most rigorous account of what a neofeudal society entails. Every page is a provocation, every sentence is a delight"
--Corey Robin, author of The Enigma of Clarence Thomas "Dean's new book gives us plenty to talk about"
--Ed Meek, Arts Fuse "Dean's new book delivers critical insights on humanity and society."
--Ron Jacobs, Counterpunch "Seeks to update Marx for a world that Dean thinks is starting to look less like the classical industrial capitalism he wrote about than a kind of high-tech feudalism."
--Ben Burgis, UnHerd
Publishing Information
Publishing Information
Publisher:
Verso
Pub date:
2025-03-18
Length:
192 pages
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