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Mar 2025
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Novara FM: Is This What Neofeudalism Loo...

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After capitalism comes communism, according to Marxist doctrine. But in the meantime, what should we call our increasingly unequal system? Political theorist Jodi Dean posits ‘neofeudalism’ as the best way to describe our growing society of serfs and servants in her new book, Capital’s Grave.

She talks to Eleanor Penny about a vision of class struggle led by the ‘servant vanguard’.

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