[lbo-talk] mass dementia

[Eric Beck]

On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 1:48 PM,  <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> "Not so minor.  Ginzburg, who knows more about this than anyone, would
> argue that witch scares were part of the beginnings of modernism."
>
> I remember reading somewhere that the persecution of witches had a lot to do with discrediting herbal-based remedies to make room for "modern" medicine.

According to Federici, this was part of it. But I don't think I'd
fetishize it too much. The main point is that the commons had to be
enclosed, and folk medicine was a part of that, but probably less
important than others.