Summary Of Caliba And The Witch

In the book Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici, she explains to us the history and effect of capitalism in society through a women’s perspective. The book goes into great detail on the many aspects of capitalism and focuses on various elements of it such as primitive accumulation, women, and labor. Silvia provides the reader with her view of capitalism and how it spawned from oppression of gender, and class. Caliban and the Witch give deep insight into the roles of women during this time and how women and many classes were meant to stay at the bottom of the barrel while the rich continued to capitalize off of them. According to Silvia, the first signs of struggle against the government appeared during the times of feudalism. Since then there has been a pattern of oppression without any real end in sight. Capitalism has long

A structure in which the wealthy class, men specifically, maintain a political and ideological supremacy over all in society. The wealthy wanted to remain in charge and the only way that they could do this post feudalism was to sell the ideology that the working class could ultimately achieve the status of the wealthy. Silvia provides us with a great amount of empirical evidence to back her claims making her arguments extremely valid in nature. Such as her account of how many of the higher officials were facing social pressure so in return they counteracted this pressure with exploitation schemes of their own to clear their name and to make everyone happy for the time being. The people who in fact did remain happy were the bourgeois. Although Silvia does provide us with some theoretical content, it is with empirical content that she is able to present her argument from the women’s perspective at an effective