Is This What Neofeudalism Looks Like?

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After capitalism comes communism, according to Marxist doctrine. But in the meantime, what can we call the increasingly unequal system we live under, where the vast majority are coerced into serving the few?

In her new book Capital’s Grave, American political theorist Jodi Dean posits ‘neofeudalism’ as the best way to describe our growing society of serfs and servants.

She talks to Eleanor Penny about the return of feudalism and how we might envisage a class struggle led by the ‘servant vanguard’.

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