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Caliban and the witch

[[Silvia Federici]].

Witch trials coincided with [[enclosure of the commons]], and the removal of women from the public sphere and the appropriation of their labour for free. A means to subjugate women who tried to assert themselves.

Criticism

Tangent: There’s a shoddy (but in some academic circles popular) book called β€œCaliban and the Witch” about the Early Modern witch craze. The thesis of this book is that the witch panic was a kind of proto-capitalist plot to wipe out resistance to the nascent economic system.

– https://twitter.com/normative/status/1454079910079877126

^ I don't think this guy's criticism is particularly good. But interesting to see anyway.

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