"In Alison Bechdel's hilariously skewering and gloriously cast new comic novel confection, a cartoonist named Alison Bechdel, running a pygmy goat sanctuary in Vermont, is existentially irked by a climate-challenged world and a citizenry on the brink of civil war. She wonders: Can she pull humanity out of its death spiral by writing a scathingly self-critical memoir about her own greed and privilege? Meanwhile, Alison's first graphic memoir about growing up with her father, a taxidermist who specialized in replicas of Victorian animal displays, has been adapted into a highly successful TV series. It's a phenomenon that makes Alison, formerly on the cultural margins, the envy of her friend group (recognizable as characters, now middle-aged and living communally in Vermont, from Bechdel's beloved comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For). As the TV show Death and Taxidermy racks up Emmy after Emmy--and when Alison's Pauline Bunyanesque partner Holly posts an instructional wood-chopping video that goes viral--Alison's own envy spirals. Why couldn't she be the writer for a critically lauded and wildly popular reality TV show...like Queer Eye...showing people how to free themselves from consumer capitalism and live a more ethical life?!! Spent's rollicking and masterful denouement--making the case for seizing what's true about life in the world at this moment, before it's too late--once again proves that "nobody does it better" (New York Times Book Review) than the real Alison Bechdel"--

The process of production of capital -- The commodity -- The process of exchange -- The struggle between worker and machine -- Simple reproduction -- The struggle for a normal working day -- The specialized worker and his tools -- Day work and night work -- The expropriation of the agricultural population from the land -- The transformation of the value (and respectively the price) of labour-power into wages -- The circumstances which, independently of the proportional division of surplus-value into capital and revenue, determine the extent of accumulation, namely, the degree of exploitation of labour-power, the productivity of labour, and the growing difference in amount between capital employed and capital consumed, and the magnitude of the capital advanced -- Co-operation