CALIBAN AND THE WITCH by Silvia Federici: a (commie) book review

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a very unwise man once said that feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians. so how does one get started? these are the answers we will look for in Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch!
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[@branchieboy]

Read this book 2 years ago and am returning to it again bc of current political decisions of the US supreme court... I found it interesting that they literally cited a lack of a "domestic supply of infants" to justify taking away reproductive rights... Anyway, great explanation!

[@branchieboy]

Also, I liked that you draw similarities between the idea of modern "terrorists" and the war on terror to the witch hunts... I think that parallels between the dissemination of state-led mass media disinformation campaigns to frame "witches" at first (and Jews, and later other races) as the source of societal problems in order distract the peasant classes from the problems actually being due to nobility and aristocracy (aka the participants of capitalism) to modern day (conservative led) disinformation campaigns like Qanon or 4chan, 8chan etc. The war on terror was proliferated through the elite media classes (mostly through tv and radio, but the internet was around of course with less users), and now the rise of different Fascist conspiracy theory groups through the internet that are sometimes grassroots at first but funded or commandeered by conservatives.

[@PaulinaSanchez]

I'm going to add the Spanish translation to my TBR because I can't with that English translation cover 😳 Lou, thank you for these videos! I'm learning a lot!

[@loureadingthings]

DO IT IT'S SO GOOD

[@booksbyleynes]

This book has been on my radar bc you mention it in literally every video! Cannot wait to watch this detailed review!

[@kevinshields2065]

I don’t think Silvia and Angela are as far way as you think. Silvia sees wages for housework as a transitional demand that can aid a proletarian movement to defeat capitalism. But Silvia wants everybody to eventually have a dishwasher if they want it.

[@booksvsmovies]

I just read an excerpt of this book for my anthropology class. It was really fascinating

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I agree with Angela Davis bec. my mom gifted me a blender (that cooks and mashes), and a whole new world of soups and green juices just opened to me. I'm extatic. 🤤

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[@ReadswithRachel]

Truly the US cover is……. Depressing

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truly the US ----- is........ Depressing

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much like a trainwreck, i kinda saw it coming

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[@theoracleofdelfi1098]

"I could make an entire video out of this" ....out of your love for the dishwasher?

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[@chrystals.4376]

I think itd be great if more leftists read books by actual scholars on Witch Hunts instead of a Philosophers Creative Nonfiction thats definitely not peer reviewed, because they're gonna get a rather different story.

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17:35 being literally a big slap on the face hahaha

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