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John Hamilton Moore, may you rot in hell !!

Federici has identified the advent of inflation (!!) in its contemporary form originating from the separation of workers from their means of subsistence, and the prominence of wage labour - supplanting subsistence agricultural labour from land privatization (enclosures) - forcing women into an unwaged "sector" of household reproductive labour, upon which the entire system of capitalist production depends. Monumental!

"The separation of workers trom their means of subsistence and their new dependence on monetary relations also meant that the real wage could now be cut and women's labor could be further devalued with respect to men's through monetary manipulation. It is not a coincidence then, that as soon as land began to be privatized, the prices of foodstuffs, which for two centuries had stagnated, began to rise."

"But the economic importance of the reproduction of labor-power carried out in the home, and its function in the accumulation of capital became invisible, being mystified as a natural vocation and labelled "women's labor." In addition, women were excluded from many waged occupations and, when they worked for a wage, they earned a pittance compared to the average male wage."

"In the new monetary regime, only production-for-market was defined as a value-creating activity, whereas the reproduction of the worker began to be considered as valueless from an economic viewpoint and even ceased to be considered as work. Reproductive work continued to be paid - though at the lowest rates - when performed for the master class or outside the home..."

"With the demise of the subsistence economy that had prevailed in pre-capitalist Europe. the unıty ot production and reproduction which has been typical of all societies based on production-for-use came to an end, as these activities became the carriers of dif ferent social relations and were sexually differentiated. In the new monetary regime, only... "