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u/snufkin1234 · 6 pointsr/WitchesVsPatriarchy

I haven't read this one but it's been in my amazon cart for awhile! I heard a talk by a herbalist in my community who referenced this book in talking about this exact topic -- how feudalism was an essential component of that shift. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1570270597/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

A book I have read is Medical Bondage: https://www.amazon.com/Medical-Bondage-Origins-American-Gynecology/dp/0820351350

It's specifically about enslaved women in america and how white american society viewed these sisters as human capital (and human capital generators). It's not the exact topic either but super interesting.

I also recommend the podcast For The Wild by Ayana Young. She interviews a lot of awesome experts in areas of social justice, environmentalism, feminism, etc. I can't think of a podcast on this specific topic, but they talk a lot about remnants of patriarchy surviving today and issues around it.

u/qwertypoiuytre · 5 pointsr/GenderCritical

A lot of radfem books focus on a relatively narrow set of topics, e.g. pornography/prostitution, beauty practices, sex, sexual violence, and marriage/nuclear family. That is not a negative thing, as they delve into these topics in such deep and revelatory ways that most of us would otherwise never consider. However, if you are interested in another viewing angle I would heartily recommend Caliban and the Witch. It's an incredible combination of being information-packed scholarly work (the author's dissertation originally) and yet fascinatingly interesting, and for that reason quite easy to read, more so than it may seem from its description. It can be purchased or viewed as pdf for free.

u/smokeuptheweed9 · 5 pointsr/communism101

https://www.amazon.com/Caliban-Witch-Women-Primitive-Accumulation/dp/1570270597

Read this book. To understand how capitalism reproduces itself you have to understand how capitalism started in the first place. You do not which leads you to have a very severe misunderstanding of this question.

u/Meta_Digital · 2 pointsr/pics

I'm going to be downvoted into oblivion for this, but here it goes;

Yeah, witch hunts are basically how you integrate a region into the a capitalism system. They started with the formation of capitalism and wherever you see capitalism first appearing you'll know by the witch hunts.

The purposes of witch hunts serve a primarily economic purpose. They clear out "undesirables" to make room for an exploitable labor force. It's no coincidence that the witch hunts in Nigera started just after the World Bank came into the region and started privatizing everything for exploitation.

A really good book on this subject called Caliban and the Witch is written by an author that experienced firsthand the transitions in Nigera towards capitalism after writing another book on the subject in Italy. I highly recommend the read even though it is extremely dark.

It's a western myth that the witch hunts ever stopped. They stopped in Europe and the Americas because they weren't needed anymore. Capitalism was already in place. Yet, wherever capitalism is first spreading out, you're sure to see witch hunts paving the way for labor exploitation. Remember; people have been living in Africa longer than any other place on Earth. The reason we see images of starving children and poverty in Africa isn't because it's a bad place for humans to live. It's because the capitalist market is newly arrived in Africa and poverty, rather than being a natural state for humans, is actually a form of violence committed against one population by another.

u/andre-st · 2 pointsr/booksuggestions

Not AHS, not even fiction, but perhaps still interesting "books about witches":

- Malleus Maleficarum (The hammer of witches), first published in 1487 -- probably best known text regarding witch hunting; there's a new translation by Wolfgang Behringer but maybe not available in English. He has English books about witch hunting, tho.

- Silvia Federici's Caliban and the Witch -- haven't read it but seems a recommended read among (feminist) women: a re-writing of women's history in the light of witch hunts

u/JustAnotherQueer · 2 pointsr/SRSQuestions

the only one that i know of is Caliban and the Witch (the book cover is slightly nsfw), which i have not read it. from what i have heard, it goes into how the notion of witchcraft was used to help transition from feudalism to capitalism.

u/peamutbutter · 2 pointsr/BadWitchBookClub

Just heard these recommended on The Majority Report to a caller:

Feminism for the 99%

Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation

u/goroboldo · 1 pointr/conspiracy

Incidentally, the Salem Witch Trials and similar witch hunts had an analogous character to them. Most of the "witches" were relatives of landlords and bosses to the poorer sections of colonial towns. People at that time had very poorly-formed conceptions of themselves as economic agents, and so conceived of their sorrows in religious terms, as the work of evil spirits and witches. Many of the children who accused adults of witches had, for years, heard those adults' names being uttered with disdain by their parents who paid rent to them or worked for them.

Caliban and the Witch goes into this in much better detail, but the point I'm making here is that it's a tried-and-true tactic of the ruling class to turn working people on each other using divisions of religion, race, and gender.

Don't fall for it. They're protecting Capitalism, the actually-existing world order of global slavery that funnels money to a tiny class of owners, in effect right fucking now.

u/dnial_hs · 1 pointr/Austria

Danke! Und ich wechsel noch grad ausgerechnet vom "Caliban and the Witch" Tab auf das. Der Spruch... wollen die sich gezielt gegen ernsthafte Kritik verteidigen, durch Totlachen?

Lachen befreit ja echt, wir dürfen dabei nur nicht vergessen dass die Häufung von Gewalttaten in diesen ideologischen Zusammenhängen nicht aus der Luft entsteht. Nicht nur die Verletzten durch homophobe und antisemitische Prügelattacken rund um die Regenbogenparade, auch allein dieses Wochenende schon wieder ein Brandanschlag in Mistelbach und zweimal Schüsse in ein Asylquartier in Stockerau, alles noch ungeklärt freilich.

u/anticlericalwars · 1 pointr/SocialistRA

Actually, the women's genocides and the Holocaust DID happen! 0% lying about it, and 0% lying about what has to be done to make it not happen again. And you're sucking so much fascist groin for free that you don't leave me the convenience of saving a bullet for fascist scum that LITERALLY WANT TO SEXUALLY ENSLAVE ME AND DO ENSLAVE TRANS WOMEN EN MASSE WITH THE BOURGE, ALL THE FUCKING TIME.

Hey fashie. Hey. Hey! Listen. I know you're upset right now. And I think you know what to do about it.

u/[deleted] · 1 pointr/Wicca

>deleting

I think you mean 'putting out' the fire.

While this is great news, it's worth noting that the Amazon Rainforest is not burning. It's being burned.

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Edit: I'd also like to say a few things about magic, activism, and the current situation in Brazil.

While I know there was a coordinated ritual specifically for something like this to happen, I want encourage people to have a sort of skeptical faith about magic. Did this 100% happen because of a magic ritual? No. Another poster gave a fantastic explanation of the ecology behind this.

By the same token, I don't want to cynically believe that magic had no part in this either, as I'm seeing elsewhere in this thread. We're Wiccans, we have faith in magic to some extent. At the very least, the call for a ritual had brought an awareness to a situation that many in this community wouldn't have known about, or been engaged with otherwise.

As for magic and activism, if we as a community are going to be engaged with things like this, and I think we should, it's important to not let magic be our only means of engagement. One of my favorite Wiccan stories is that of The New Forest Coven's ritual against the Nazis. Not only did they curse the Nazis to push them back, and prevent them from crossing the English Channel, they also took up arms, and joined the local Home Guard, and were ready to fight (or as ready as they could be, given the old age of a number of them) should there be an invasion. We should follow this example. Witchcraft has always been political, from the historic witch hunts, to the burning times myth, and from The Nazi cursing to Aradia.

Finally, the situation in Brazil. If any Brazilians are here that can clarify the situation there, I'd greatly appreciate it, but here's the story as I understand it:

For many decades, Brazil was under the control of a violent military junta, which was eventually overthrown by The Workers Party, I think, as part of the Pink Tide (a series of popular revolutions and elections in central/south America that put in power various left wing governments), a generally left-leaning political party.

The Workers party was dominant for many years, until a handful of years ago, when various workers party leaders, most notably Lula Desilva, were removed from office and/or arrested on supposed corruption charges, in what many called a 'soft coup'. This led to a short lived provisional government of sorts, and elections which led to the election of the Far Right candidate, Jair Bolsanaro, who in addition to threatening the civil rights of Brazil's indigenous people, LGBT community, religious monitorities (I think there's a fairly sizeable Wiccan movement down there?), ethnic monitorities, etc. Bolsanaro has also said he intends to bulldoze the amazon rainforest. That's why these fires are happening.

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u/flowyrs · -55 pointsr/MedicalGore

anti "essential oils" its a sentiment that can be drawn back to racism, misogyny and witchcraft if you dig deep enough. reddit is not a great place to talk about this kind of stuff and im not an expert, if you are curious there are a lot of great books on the topic caliban and the witch has some great takes in it.

basically science is the new religion, anything that deviates is heresy or a joke