Emancipation and Social Struggles against Cannibal Capitalism

Nancy Fraser's book, Cannibal Capitalism, can be added to the long list of remarkable works in the style of the Zeitdiagnose. From this perspective, the article focuses on the concept of capitalism as an institutionalized social system. Three points are examined. The interpretation of capitalism as a consumer of care introduces the categories of bio-capitalism and intimate labor. The analysis of the crisis of contemporary democracies by questioning the category of politicism, which Fraser argues overlooks the causal power of extra-political society. Finally, by exploring the category of emancipation as one of the relevant themes in the political discourse on the transformation of society.