Leigh Claire La Berge’s Marx for Cats reimagines the history of capitalism by analyzing archival documentation about felines. By updating bestiaries to include contemporary criticism of capitalism, La Berge positions cats as the key to an economic revolution. While the title and cover suggest a playful, possibly unserious analysis, La Berge carefully constructs a detailed history from feudalism to capitalism to point readers toward an animal-friendly future that reconsiders power structures and dares to imagine a world beyond capitalism.
Articles by Rachael Mulvihill
Rachael Mulvihill is a PhD Candidate in Literary and Cultural Studies at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research examines utopian and dystopian representations of capitalism across contemporary fiction, film, and media. She focuses on how these narrative forms imagine, critique, or reproduce the socio-economic logics of neoliberalism, revealing how capitalism conditions embodiment, labor, and relationality. Her article, “The Cost of Compliance: Unpacking Worker Identity in Severance” is forthcoming in LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History.