Silvia Federici Boeken

A cult classic since its publication in the early years of this century, Caliban and the Witch is Silvia Federici's history of the body in the transition to capitalism. Moving from the peasant revolts of the late Middle Ages through the European witch-hunts, the rise of scientific rationalism and the colonisation of the Americas, it gives a panoramic account of the often horrific violence with which the unruly human material of pre-capitalist societies was transformed into a set of predictable and controllable mechanisms. It is a study of indigenous traditions crushed, of the enclosure of women's reproductive powers within the nuclear family, and of how our modern world was forged in blood.

Collects 35 years of essays on feminism, as well as critiques of capitalism, in a book that looks at elder care, labor, sex and reproduction and more. Original.

An edited collection Silvia Federici's work, spanning over twenty years, in which she provides a detailed history and critique of the politics of the commons from a feminist perspective. In her clear and combative voice, Federici provides readers with an analysis of some of the key issues and debates in contemporary thinking on this subject. Drawing on rich historical research, she maps the connections between the previous forms of enclosure that occurred with the birth of capitalism and the destruction of the commons and the 'new enclosures' at the heart of the present phase of global capitalist accumulation.

In Patriarchy of the Wage, Silvia Federici, best-selling author and the most important Marxist feminist of our time, asks why Marx and the Marxist tradition were so crucial in their denunciation of capitalism's exploitation of human labor and blind to women's work and struggle on the terrain of social reproduction. Why was Marx unable to anticipate the profound transformations in the proletarian family that took place at the turn of the nineteenth century creating a new patriarchal regime? In this fiery collection of penetrating essays published here for the first time, Federici carefully examines these questions and in the process has provided an expansive redefinition of work, class, and class-gender relations. Seeking to delineate the specific character of capitalist "patriarchalism," this magnificently original approach also highlights Marx's and the Marxist tradition's problematic view of industrial production and the State in the struggle for human liberation. Federici's lucid argument that most reproductive work is irreducible to automation is a powerful reminder of the poverty of the revolutionary imagination that consigns to the world of machines the creation of the material conditions for a communist society.

Through personal essays and interviews about what it is like to live as a woman (cis + trans) in the modern world, All of Me includes vulnerable, painful truths and bold inspiration. This anthology is for anyone looking to find inspiration in radical activism, creativity, healing, and more. It covers topics of social and economic justice, creativity, racism, transgender perspectives, sexuality, sex work, addiction and recovery, reproductive rights, assault, relationship dynamics, families, fitting and not fitting in, radical self-care, witchcraft, and more.

The present way of life is a war against our bodies. Can we build the infrastructure to heal ourselves and transform the societal conditions that continue to mentally and physically harm us?

Silvia Federici argues that, no less than the witch hunts in sixteenth and seventeenth century, the new war on women is a structural element of the new forms of capitalist accumulation. These processes are founded on the destruction of people's most basic means of reproduction. Like at the dawn of capitalism, what we discover behind today's violence against women are processes of enclosure, land dispossession, and the remoulding of women's reproductive activities and subjectivity. As well as an investigation into the causes of this new violence, the book is also a feminist call to arms.

More than ever, the 'body' is today at the centre of radical and institutional politics. Feminist, antiracist, trans and ecological movementsall look at the body as a ground of confrontation with the state and a vehicle for transformative social practices. Concurrently, the body has become a signifier for the reproduction crisis the neoliberal turn in capitalist development has generated and for the international surge in institutional repression and public violence. Here, Silvia Federici examines these complex processes, placing them in the context of the history of the capitalist transformation of the body into a work-machine.

Silvia Federici ist eine der einflussreichsten feministischen Theoretikerinnen der Gegenwart. In diesem Band, der Texte aus den letzten zwanzig Jahren versammelt, stehen die Commons im Zentrum der Analyse. So gelingt es Federici, die proletarischen Kämpfe gegen die Einhegungen der Vergangenheit und der Gegenwart miteinander in Beziehung zu setzen. Die Commons versteht sie aber nicht als »Inseln der Glückseligen« in einem Meer ausbeuterischer Verhältnisse, sondern als autonome Räume, von denen aus die bestehende kapitalistische Organisation des Lebens und der Arbeit herausgefordert werden kann. Die Kämpfe von Frauen und die von ihnen geleistete reproduktive Arbeit sind dabei von zentraler Bedeutung, nicht nur, weil sie für unser (Über-)Leben entscheidend sind, sondern auch, weil aus dieser Perspektive eine Welt jenseits der Verheerungen des Kapitalismus gedacht werden kann. Die »Entzauberung der Welt« (Max Weber) versteht Federici politischer, nämlich als die Zerstörung jedweder Logik jenseits kapitalistischer Rationalität. Daher ihr Aufruf, die Welt wieder zu verzaubern und andere Welten zu entdecken und für diese zu kämpfen.

Eine Zeit der Krisen und der weltweiten Ausdehnung kapitalistischer Verhältnisse verlangt geradezu danach, das Marx’sche Werk aus einer feministischen Perspektive neu zu denken. Silvia Federici, die bedeutendste marxistische Feministin der Gegenwart, geht der Frage nach, warum Marx und die marxistische Tradition in ihrer Kritik der Ausbeutung menschlicher Arbeit im Kapitalismus so unnachgiebig sein konnten, während sie gegenüber der Arbeit und den Kämpfen von Frauen in der Reproduktion blind waren. Und warum war Marx nicht in der Lage, die tiefgreifenden Veränderungen, die proletarische Familien erfuhren und ein neues – kapitalistisches – patriarchales Regime schufen, zu begreifen? In ihren Essays, die hier zum ersten Mal auf Deutsch veröffentlicht werden, liefert sie eine umfangreiche Neubestimmung von Arbeit, Klasse und den Geschlechterverhältnissen. Die Bedeutung der reproduktiven Arbeit in den Blick zu nehmen dient aber nicht nur der Kritik der marxistischen Tradition, sondern drückt auch ihr stürmisches Verlangen nach einem neuen, einem anderen Kommunismus aus.