Aimee Brown

“Money is the alienated essence of man's labor and life; and this alien essence dominates him as he worships it.”
― Karl Marx, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy Volume 1

“The women’s movement must realize that work is not liberation. Work in a capitalist system is exploitation and there is no pleasure, pride or creativity in being exploited. Even the “career” is an illusion as far as
self-fulfillment is concerned. What is rarely acknowledged is that most career-type jobs require that you exert power over other people, often
other women and this deepens the divisions between us. We try to escape blue collar or clerical ghettos in order to have more time and more satisfaction only to discover that the price we pay for advancing is the
distance that intervenes between us and other women. However there is no discipline we impose on others that we do not at the same time impose on ourselves, which means that in performing these jobs we actually undermine our own struggles.”
― Silvia Federici, Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

“The Patty Winters Show this morning was about Nazis and, inexplicably, I got a real charge out of watching it. Though I wasn't exactly charmed by their deeds, I didn't find them unsympathetic either, nor I might add did most of the members of the audience. One of the Nazis, in a rare display of humor, even juggled grapefruits and, delighted, I sat up in bed and clapped.”
― Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho

“The revival of magical beliefs is possible today because it no longer represents a social threat. The mechanization of the body is so constitutive of the individual that, at least in industrialized countries, giving space to the belief in occult forces does not jeopardize the regularity of social behavior. Astrology too can be allowed to return, with the certainty that even the most devoted consumer of astral charts will automatically consult the watch before going to work.”
― Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation