A review by emily2348
Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici

5.0

one of the best reads of the year i think, the way capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism is linked and explained within this book just blew my mind. reading about the witch killings makes me cry everytime, i am going to have to read everything she’s written now aren’t i….

“We cannot, therefore, identify capitalist accumulation with the liberation of the worker, female or male, as many Marxists (among others) have done, or see the advent of capitalism as a moment of historical progress. On the contrary, capitalism has created more brutal and insidious forms of enslavement, as it has planted into the body of the proletariat deep divisions that have served to intensify and conceal exploitation. It is in great part because of these imposed divisions - especially those between women and men - that capitalist accumulation continues to devastate life in every corner of the planet.”