pattan’s Reviews > Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation > Status Update

“Primitive accumulation has been a universal process in every phase of capitalist development[…] relaunched in the face of every major capitalist crisis, serving to cheapen the cost of labor and to hide the exploitation of women and colonial subjects.

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capitalism must justify and mystify the contradictions built into its social relations by denigrating the nature of those it exploits.”