Capital''s Grave - Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle

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

Jodi Dean teaches political and media theory in Geneva, New York. She has written or edited eleven books, including The Communist Horizon and Crowds and Party.

Product details

• Authors: Jodi Dean, Dean Jodi
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.03.2025
• EAN: 9781804295199
• ISBN: 978-1-80429-519-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Capitalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Economic systems & structures, Social classes, Political control and freedoms, Political Control & Freedoms