Leigh Claire La Berge, Marx para gatos: un bestiario radical: Madrid, Akal, 2025, 376 pp.

Abstract

The review examines Leigh Claire La Berge’s Marx for Cats, a reinterpretation of the history of capitalism and Marxism through the material and symbolic presence of felines. Using the bestiary form and several animal dialectics, La Berge explores primitive accumulation, the American and French Revolutions, United States expansion, the Paris Commune, and twentieth-century anticapitalist struggles. The text highlights her proposal for interspecies socialism and her concept of «species potential», while questioning her Marxian interpretation of labour and «species-being». The book ultimately challenges Marxist analysis to view history through animal eyes and to incorporate animal liberation into the struggle for socialism.