![]() ![]() ![]() My analysis departs from Karl Marx’s in two ways. This is a lightly edited excerpt from Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation (2004, Autonomedia), republished with permission from the press. In this famous work, Silvia Federici gives a radical feminist reading to the 16th- and 17th century witch-hunts in Europe, arguing that capitalism began with systemic violence against women and colonised people, and that in order for capitalism to keep functioning, it needs an infusion of expropriated capital – and that women’s unpaid labour, including reproductive work in the home, is a critical part of this expropriation. ![]() Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window).Click to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window).Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window).Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). ![]()
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