![]() ![]() Thus, my description of primitive accumulation includes a set of historical phenomena that are absent in Marx, and yet have been extremely important for capitalist accumulation. Whereas Marx examines primitive accumulation from the viewpoint of the waged male proletariat and the development of commodity production, I examine it from the viewpoint of the changes it introduced in the social position of women and the production of labour power. 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). ![]()
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