![]() ![]() ![]() In so doing, previously “invisible” (A problematic term, which begs the questions “invisible to whom?”) forms of oppression and resistance are brought to light, and this “peripheral” question is shown to be central not only to capitalist history, but also to our unfinished quest to find a road out of it. While there are no definitive answers yet, Silvia Federici’s Caliban and the Witch is a welcome addition to a growing list of works that take these questions seriously from an anti-capitalist and anti-colonialist perspective. What we get instead are platitudes about “culture,” “backwardness” and “personal attitudes,” occasionally slipping into plain old biological determinism in materialist drag. Women’s oppression is a subject at the center of our struggle for human liberation, but serious discussions as to why women suffer distinct forms of oppression, and why rape and other violence is so important in this,have generally been beyond the scope of most left analysis. ![]()
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