Leigh Claire La Berge is Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College, City University of New York, and author of Wages Against Artwork: Decommodified Labor and the Claims of Socially Engaged Art, also published by Duke University Press.
Who knew that following cats could open up history and enliven Marxism? This delightful archive of the feline in class struggle reminds us that cats are our comrades. Hand in paw, we have a world to win! --Jodi Dean, author of Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging Marx for Cats is an undomesticated and indefinable meow de coeur. You can open this book anywhere, a Marxist Choose-Your-Own-Adventure, and come away as unsettled, possessed, and reflective as any transportative encounter with a cat might do. --Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox