Nancy Fraser

What must be reinvented, then, is the relation of production to reproduction, of private to public power, of human society to nonhuman nature. If this sounds like a tall order, it’s our best hope. Only by thinking big can we give ourselves a fighting chance to vanquish cannibal capitalism’s relentless drive to eat us whole.

And in this new world, where money is a primary medium of power, the fact of its being unpaid or underpaid seals the matter: those who do this work are structurally subordinate to those who earn cash wages in “production,” even as their “reproductive” work also supplies necessary preconditions for wage labor.

Truth be told, it’s a rare type of crisis, in which multiple bouts of gluttony have converged. What we face, thanks to decades of financialization, is not “only” a crisis of rampaging inequality and low-waged precarious work; nor “merely” one of care or social reproduction; nor “just” a crisis of migration and racialized violence. Neither is it “simply” an ecological crisis in which a heating planet disgorges lethal plagues, nor “only” a political crisis featuring hollowed-out infrastructure, ramped-up militarism, and a proliferation of strongmen. Oh no, it’s something worse: a general crisis of the entire societal order in which all those calamities converge, exacerbating one another and threatening to swallow us whole.

political dysfunctions that block our ability to envision and implement solutions.

not to a type of economy but to a type of society:

not just class struggles at the point of production, but also boundary struggles at the system’s constitutive joints

continue to prioritize struggles over labor at the point of production. In general, then, we lack conceptions of capitalism and capitalist crisis that are adequate to our time.

access, in other words, to food, shelter, and clothing, and to tools, land, and work, without having to go through a labor market.

It is worth stressing just how bizarre, how “unnatural,” how historically anomalous and specific the free labor market is

bereft of the resources and entitlements that could permit one to abstain from the labor market.