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Incredibly powerful section to read in the next day wake of the atrocious sentencing for the prairieland defenders in Texas

“One precondition for capitalist development was the ‘disciplining of the body’ (Foucault) - an attempt by state and church to transform the individual’s powers into labour-power. [In 16th century Western Europe], most affected by the Protestant Reformation and the rising mercantile bourgeoisie, emerging in every field was… a reconceptualisation of Judeo-Christian themes to produce a new anthropological paradigm.”

“The criminalisation of women’s control over procreation is a phenomenon whose importance cannot be overemphasised [in] its consequences for the capitalist organisation of work… Indeed, forcing women to produce children for the state, … the banning of prostitution, and expulsion of women from the organised workplace [saw] the reconstruction of the family as the locus for the production of labour-power.”