[lbo-talk] modern witchcraft

[Sean Andrews]

Very interesting.  Sitting next to me--hopefully to be read in spurts
over the next year or so, during my kid's nap and in between
classes--is Silvia Federici's /Caliban and The Witch/.  I haven't read
it, but her thesis is basically that the accusation of witchcraft is
usually in response to people resisting primitive accumulation.  Not
sure how these kids fit into it, but I believe she looks at modern day
Africa as well as colonial US and medieval Europe.  Here's a short
review:

http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/revicontent_caliban.htm

[in perusing the review, looks like it is just western europe in early
modern era; connection to Africa was made in Raj Patel's book "value
of nothing" re: ending the commons then and now.  Again, no mention of
kids, but...]

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