Against the Proper Subject of the Summit: The Colonial Limits of Bataille's "General Economy".

The article discusses the turn of French intellectual Georges Bataille to a theory of general economy. Topics include the argument of Bataille on the shared political-economic logic of capitalist accumulation and communism, Bataille's engagement with G. W. F. Hegel, Ludwig Feuerbach, and Karl Marx, and information on volume one of "The Accursed Share" by Bataille.