Abstract
Jodi Dean’s conception of neofeudalism - her hypothesis - is a synthesis of different tendencies and phenomena characteristic of the world we currently inhabit. Each of these can and has been theorised in different and less all-encompassing ways, without the suggestion that they necessarily represent the end of capitalism as such. The notion that capitalism is dynamic and subject to significant transformations is not new. Since the 1970s it has been commonplace to deploy concepts such as late capitalism, and in fact fundamental changes to the operating principles of the capitalist mode of production requiring a reassessment of its capacity for adaptation and survival have been postulated at least since Lenin’s Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916), as well as through the Western Marxist tradition: from Lukacs’ History and Class Consciousness written in the wake of the Bolshevik revolution to the Frankfurt School of the 1930s. For more than a century capitalism has been understood as both dynamic and expansive, with the capacity not only to survive crises but to emerge from these reinvigorated, able to absorb previously untouched regions of the social formation.
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Goldie, Chris
(2025)
"Jodi Dean. Capital’s Grave: Neofeudalism and the New Class Struggle Verso 2025,"
The Journal of International Relations, Peace Studies, and Development: Vol. 10:
Iss.
1, Article 9.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.arcadia.edu/agsjournal/vol10/iss1/9