At the outset of Marx for Cats Leigh Claire La Berge declares that ampampquotall history is the history of cat struggle.ampampquot Revising the medieval bestiary form to meet Marxist critique La Berge follows feline footprints through Western economic history to reveal an animality at the heart of Marxism. She draws on a twelvehundredyear arc spanning capitalisms feudal prehistory its colonialist and imperialist ages the bourgeois revolutions that supported capitalism and the communist revolutions that opposed it to outline how cats have long been understood as creatures of economic critique and liberatory possibility. By attending to the repeated archival appearance of lions tigers wildcats and ampampquotsabotabbiesampampquot La Berge argues that felines are central to how Marxists have imagined the economy and by asking what humans and animals owe each other in a moment of ecological crisis La Berge joins current debates about the need for and possibility of ecosocialism.