The Immiseration of the Working Class | Caliban & the Witch

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Everything you’ve ever been taught about Witches is wrong!

Period!

Philosopher Sylvia Federici writes a new history of witches in Caliban and the Witch: Woman, the Body, & Primitive Accumulation. This video looks at Chapter 2, The Accumulation of Labor & the Degradation of Women: Constructing ‘Difference’ in the ‘Transition to Capitalism’.

This chapter covers the following: The Price Revolution, and the Pauperization & Criminalization of the Working Class

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Citations:

Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Buy here!

Marx, Karl. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy. Vol. 1, Penguin, 1992. Buy here!

Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. Buy here!

Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977. Buy here!

Locke, John. Two Treatises of Government. Edited by Mark Goldie, Everyman, 1999. Buy here!

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