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Capital's Grave

Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle

Author Jodi Dean
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On sale Mar 18, 2025 | 9781804295199
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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.
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

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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.

Table of Contents

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

Praise

"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

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