Silvia Federici is an Italian-American scholar, teacher and Marxist feminist activist, born in 1942, based in New York. She is considered a leading theorist in Marxist feminist theory, women's history, political philosophy and the history and theory of the commons. Her best known book, Caliban and the Witch (2004), has been translated into numerous languages and widely adopted in college courses. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Silvia Federici is an Italian-American scholar, teacher, and Marxist feminist activist based in New York. She is considered one of the leading theoreticians in Marxist feminist theory, women's history, political philosophy, and the history and theory of the commons.
Practices Studied: Capitalism, Article text
Instead of seeing capitalism as a liberatory defeat of feudalism, Federici interprets the ascent of capitalism as a reactionary move to subvert the rising tide of communalism and to retain the basic social contract.
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