Mara’s Reviews > Caliban und die Hexe: Frauen, der Körper und die ursprüngliche Akkumulation > Status Update

I really have to read Focaults 'History of sexuality' to find out why every bad book I read in the last years has this book at the core of its argumentation.

Federici missunderstands Marx in such gross ways (even in his studies of superstructure) it is very hard to trust the presentation of her other sources

In trying to debunk both the works of Marx and Engels as some sort of sacred texts she just reifies them as such, misunderstanding for example the defeat of the fem. sex in the Origins as an 'ultimate' defeat and not understanding the dialectic of the distribution of reproductive labour. If she would understand that she would be able to see that she is working on the last defeat of the female sex but sadly she doesnt

We really need a marxist history of the hunting of witches as the final stage of the defeat of the female sex, in order to fully grasp the reproduction of the working class but this really ain't it...