Judith Butler and Marxism: The Radical Feminism of Performativity, Vulnerability, and Care

This is the first book to fully study the contentious link between the vastly influential projects of Judith Butler and Marxism.

What would a Butlerian Marxism look like? Marxist criticisms of Butler range from careful comparisons of forms to the total dismissal of an unpolitical, merely cultural anarchy. None of these criticisms, however, focuses on what seems to most closely unite these two projects: the universal abolition of the universal. While Marxist communism is focused on the abolit...