Caliban and the Witch (Chapter 4 - The Great Witch-Hunt in Europe) - Silvia Federici

As we delve deepter into Silvia Federici's 'Caliban and
the Witch', we learn about the origins of the banning of
reproductive sex and the demonisation of homosexuality, how women
were pushed out of the workforce, the environment of acceptance
around violence on the bodies of women, the attacks on women's
intergenerational knowledge, elite magicians of the bourgeoisie,
how class war and not enlightenment caused the end of the witch
trials, links between Nazism and the witch-hunts and an overview
of Malthusianism. Join us for our episode on chapter 4 of Caliban
and the Witch  - 'The Great Witch-Hunt in
Europe' for insight into all these topics and more.


This episode is part of our series on Marxist-feminists. As Mao
and Thomas Sankara have said, “Women hold up the other half of
the sky.” Red Book Club recognizes that including the voices of
nonmen in our studies is not a niche activity, but is in fact an
essential step in gaining the most comprehensive view of the
material conditions of the past and present that we possibly
can; therefore we’ve planned this series to amplify the ideas
that nonmen have been bringing to the conversation
for centuries. From Federici’s analysis of women as a
means of primitive accumulation to Luxemburg’s essay of the
benefits of revolution vs the impossibility of reform, each of
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Outro music: Witchcraft - The Lovely Eggs