...Menace and Menagerie<subtitle>The Feudal Mode of Production and Its Cats, 800–1500</subtitle> Lion Kings: To understand the economic system of capitalism fully, one starts with its predecessor, feudalism, the economic system of the Christian Middle Ages, whose archive is dominated by multiple...

...Our Dumb Beasts<subtitle>The Rise of the Bourgeoisie and Its Appropriation of Cats, 1800–1900</subtitle> Wildcats: Wildcatters in which a style of accumulation called “wildcat banking,” is used to displace and exterminate both indigenous nations and lynx, bobcats, and cougars as the fractious...

...Every Paw Can Be a Claw<subtitle>Revolutions with Cats, Revolutions against Capitalism, 1900–2000</subtitle> Sabo-Tabbies: In which the role of cats in communicating revolutionary thought is considered, from Wobbly Ralph Chaplin’s famous black “sabo-tabby” or sabotage cat to Vladimir Lenin’s...

... The Devil’s Cats: This chapter introduces the reader to Karl Marx’s feline lineage and contextualizes the centuries-long assault on domestic cats as agents of witches and the devil as the result of the disintegrating feudal mode of production; the cat emerges as a counterpart to the noble lion...

... Domestic Cats, Communal and Servile: Cats in which the reader becomes acquainted with the many cat and animal advocates of the Paris Commune, from Louise Michel to Élisée Reclus as well as with the radical German émigré scene at London’s Red Lion pub, the site at which Marx and Friedrich Engels...

... This chapter deals with the example of cats in the work of Slavoj Žižek and Jacques Derrida. Their theorization of animals, and its relation to anthropocentrism, can help us understand the “inhuman core of the human.” The aim here is not to rehabilitate animality per se or an attempt to examine...

... The idea of a feline Marxism is introduced through a collection of Marxists and their relationships to their cats; as well as to a sampling of the feline metaphors found throughout the history of political economy. longue durée bestiary Marxism interspeciesism poststructuralism ...

...Preface and Acknowledgments<subtitle>Grabbing the Cat by Its Tail, or How the Cat Grabbed Me</subtitle> ...