This article discusses some aspects of Nancy Fraser’s book Cannibal capitalism, focusing in particular on the description of the capitalist social order proposed by Nancy Fraser. One of the main issues that is raised in Fraser’s book and that is discussed in this article is the following: on what grounds can be said that the expropriation, in addition to being a condition of possibility of the formation of capitalism, is also a structural necessity? Is, in principle, capitalist exploitation possible without expropriation?