I really like Federici’s work, and was keen to get my hands on this new collection of essays touching in one way or another on the body, particularly the capitalist transformation of the body. I found it to be a bit peculiar – not bad, necessarily, but peculiar. Partly, that’s less about the book than …
A short, accessible, measured, and methodical book that lays out what the author describes as a “reconstructed historical materialism” – that is, a way of understanding the world and of orienting our struggles to change it that fuses a critical marxist approach to class relations with the many other axes of oppression with which they …
A short book by an English academic that explores “the widespread sense that not only is capitalism the only viable political and economic system, but also that it is now impossible even to imagine a coherent alternative to it” (2). In order to build movements that can once again threaten to transform capitalism, we must …