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{"title":"Book Review: Cannibal Capitalism: How Our System Is Devouring Democracy, Care, and the Planet — and What We Can Do About It","authors":"Nicholas Croce","doi":"10.1177/03098168231151781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168231151781","url":null,"abstract":"The subtitle of Nancy Fraser’s latest work asserts that it’s a ‘System’, not an ‘economic system’ that is doing the devouring. Many of us have perhaps argued that capital is everywhere all at once, all things undergoing commodification. Maybe we’ve even gone as far as to say that capitalism’s devouring of social life is a matter of our global eschatological final course. Fraser’s Cannibal Capitalism says not so fast. Georg Lukács says that the commodity form colonizes all of life, and Fraser argues against Lukács, insisting that capitalism relies on ‘the very existence of zones of non-commodification’ (p. 18). The cornerstone argument of this book is that capitalism relies on these zones marked as non-economic and is cannibalizing them: an ‘ouroboros’ that eats its own tail. As Fraser takes readers through the backrooms of capitalism’s ‘five crises of gluttony’, it becomes progressively clear that it is her analysis – of this historical moment’s severe subjugation of social reproduction to commodity production – which can generate a lucid, anti-oppressive politics. The book proceeds in six chapters, plus a preface and an epilogue. Each features a corny yet instructive title, all extremely on-theme. Omnivore argues that capitalism is not an economic system and is better described as a bundle of relations between different facets of life. Fraser goes on to explain in the next four chapters what these relations are. Glutton for Punishment details the relationship between racism and capitalism, or more specifically, racism and what she calls the ‘two exes’, expropriation and exploitation. I expect many readers seek an analysis of race and capitalism, so it makes sense that Fraser starts here. Fraser explains that race has often been the fulcrum around which facially economic choices about exploitation and expropriation take place. Capitalism is a system by which racial logics help determine who is to be expropriated and who is ‘lucky’ enough for the ‘doubly-free’ system of wage labour. Next, Care Guzzler elucidates that capitalism at once relies on unwaged care work while subverting care work’s life sustaining capacities. Sharing resonances, Nature in the Maw details capitalism’s reliance on nature as a free or cheap resource-for-the-taking. This chapter is classic Fraser, a strong reprisal of her theory on nature (as conceived under capitalism) as a ‘tap’ to draw upon 1151781 CNC0010.1177/03098168231151781Capital & ClassBook Reviews book-review2023","PeriodicalId":46258,"journal":{"name":"Capital and Class","volume":"84 1","pages":"125 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83866866","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Revolutionary Social Democracy: Working-Class Politics Across the Russian Empire (1882–1917)","authors":"W. Marzec","doi":"10.1177/03098168231151781g","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168231151781g","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46258,"journal":{"name":"Capital and Class","volume":"44 1","pages":"141 - 144"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73573192","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer","authors":"J. Peacock","doi":"10.1177/03098168231151781e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168231151781e","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46258,"journal":{"name":"Capital and Class","volume":"33 1","pages":"137 - 139"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73972468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Main Concepts and Principles of Political Economy","authors":"Daniel Hinze","doi":"10.1177/03098168231151781b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168231151781b","url":null,"abstract":"use of the balance sheet metaphor chimes with the ‘hedge fund’ concept employed in another recent study of households’ economic management under neoliberal, financialized capitalism (Bryan & Rafferty 2018). This is a richly provocative, rewarding book that deserves the widest readership, most especially among those wondering why resort to Keynesian-era logic fails to persuade even the presumed beneficiaries of such policies.","PeriodicalId":46258,"journal":{"name":"Capital and Class","volume":"25 1","pages":"129 - 132"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81550953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lawrence (‘Larry’) Wilde (1950–2022)","authors":"T. Burns","doi":"10.1177/03098168231151749","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168231151749","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46258,"journal":{"name":"Capital and Class","volume":"12 1","pages":"149 - 151"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88618508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Book Review: Cooperatives in the Global Economy","authors":"J. Hübner","doi":"10.1177/03098168231151781d","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168231151781d","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46258,"journal":{"name":"Capital and Class","volume":"21 1","pages":"134 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85814975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Marx’s non-speciesist concept of labour","authors":"Michael Sommer, Christian Stache","doi":"10.1177/03098168221145453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168221145453","url":null,"abstract":"Human–animal scholars have repeatedly accused Marx of standing in the tradition of a Cartesian human–animal dualism. One central piece of evidence brought forward to substantiate the attack is Marx’s concept of labour. The present article, however, argues that Marx’s conceptualisation of labour is actually non-speciesist and recognises non-waged and other than human forms of labour as well without renouncing qualitative distinctions between them. For Marx, both useful labour and the historically specific capitalist form of social labour cannot be reduced to something peculiar to man. Useful labour encompasses a wide range of ways to transform nature. Due to the bourgeois social relations, capitalist social labour is instead limited to human productive wage labour, excluding numerous types of human labour as well as animal labour. Thus, his concept of labour proves that Marx is not just another ‘speciesist’ scholar in the long Western tradition of philosophy.","PeriodicalId":46258,"journal":{"name":"Capital and Class","volume":"178 1","pages":"469 - 490"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83756838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Leaderfulness from a Gramscian perspective: Building organic intellectuals within Black lives matter","authors":"E. Nulman, A. Cole","doi":"10.1177/03098168221137188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168221137188","url":null,"abstract":"Contemporary social movements and organizations have increasingly embraced the notion of ‘leaderfulness’. This development has the possibility of affecting the current struggles these movements face as well as the activist landscapes of the future. Due to its distinct contribution to developing an analysis of leadership, this article seeks to position Gramsci’s intellectual work at the heart of understanding the ways in which these contemporary movement organizations are using organizational structures to address social objectives and the implications this has on the movement. Specifically, this article examines the Black Lives Matter Global Network, which openly advocates for leaderfulness, through documentary content analysis and 22 interviews of activists across 18 local chapters. We find that the structures for promoting leaderfulness which Gramsci had advocated for were lacking and, we argue, this was the reason why the development of leaderfulness was limited. This article helps to shed light on the difficulties of social movement momentum and proposes a solution drawn from Gramsci’s work.","PeriodicalId":46258,"journal":{"name":"Capital and Class","volume":"10 1","pages":"61 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88820105","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From Occupy Wall Street to the Gilets Jaunes: On the populist turn in the protest movements of the 2010s","authors":"P. Gerbaudo","doi":"10.1177/03098168221137207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168221137207","url":null,"abstract":"Many recent protest movements, from the 2011 square occupation movements to the Gilets Jaunes display typical populist features, starting from an appeal to the people vs the elites. Drawing on my work on social movements in the 2010s in this article, I discuss the different components and implications of this ‘populist turn’ and its differences vis-à-vis other forms of populism, and in particular right-wing populism. I claim that social movements’ populism involves the adoption of a ‘popular identity’ as a unifying notion as a means to compensate for identity fragmentation; an identification with social majorities evident in Occupy Wall Street’s famous ‘we are the 99%’ slogan, which departs from the minoritarian identification of previous movements; and an appeal to common sense and the nation vis-à-vis the militant antagonism and cosmopolitanism prevalent in many previous social movement waves. This cultural transformation within social movements is, on the one hand, an indication of changing political opportunities and the unlocking of new areas of support for protest movements and, on the other hand, the product of social movements’ self-reflection and the attempt to escape the self-ghettoising tendencies of previous protest waves. However, this populist turn has also raised concerns among some activists, especially concerning the association of the ‘popular’ with the ‘national’ and a perception that popular identity involves undermining internal diversity and pluralism.","PeriodicalId":46258,"journal":{"name":"Capital and Class","volume":"19 1","pages":"107 - 124"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87421337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Back to the 1960s? Alessandro Pizzorno’s contribution to understanding the labor movement revival then and now","authors":"Donatella della Porta","doi":"10.1177/03098168221137000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/03098168221137000","url":null,"abstract":"Developing in a period of perceived decline of the labor movement, social movement studies have for a long time paid only limited attention to struggles against social inequalities and, more generally, the structural conditions for the development of some fundamental conflicts. Only recently, addressing social struggles for global justice and against austerity, they have started to return to the social bases of protest. In this article, I point at the particular relevance in this historical moment of revisiting the contribution of Italian sociologist Alessandro Pizzorno to the understanding of class conflicts in turbulent times. While class analysis has been more and more focused on social stratification, reflecting on waves of intense contention is therefore important in order to single out how organizational resources and identification processes can indeed develop in action, from the mobilization itself, rather than being a precondition for it. While much research on social stratification seems to have forgotten the complexity of class conceptualization, looking mainly at statistical aggregates, the work of Alessandro Pizzorno helps refocusing attention on the ways in which class solidarity emerges during workers’ struggles. In this sense, it talks to recent reflections on a return not only of labor action but also of classes as driver of history.","PeriodicalId":46258,"journal":{"name":"Capital and Class","volume":"5 1","pages":"29 - 42"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2022-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90430202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}