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David Garcia (Netherlands)
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Heidi Grundmann (Austria)
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Fran Ilich (Mexico)
The Institute (Romania)
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Eric Kluitenberg (Netherlands)
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Michael Linton (Canada)
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Sebastian Luetgert (Germany)
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Kenta Ohji (Japan)
Cesare Piertoiusti (Italy)
Simon Pope (UK)
Joanne Richardson (Romania)
Patrice Riemens (Netherlands)
Louis Rosales (Mexico)
Paula Roush (UK)
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Barbara Schurz (Austria)
Greg Sholette (USA)
Howard Slater (UK)
Space Hijackers (UK)
Felix Stalder (Canada/Austria)
Janos Sugar (Hungary)
V2_Organisation (Netherlands)
Vakuum TV (Hungary)
McKenzie Wark (Australia/USA)
Peter Lamborn Wilson (USA)
WRO Center (Poland)
Ernie Yacub (Canada)

"In the neoliberal era of postmodernism, the proletariat is whited-out from the pages of history. Silvia Federici recovers its historical substance by telling its story starting at the beginning, with the throes of its birth. This is a book of remembrance, of a trauma burned into the body of women, which left a scar on humanity's memory as deep and painful as those caused by famine, slaughter and enslavement.

Federici shows that the birth of the proletariat required a war against women, inaugurating a new sexual pact and a new patriarchal era: the patriarchy of the wage. Firmly rooted in the history of the persecution of the witches and the disciplining of the body, her arguments explain why the subjugation of women was as crucial for the formation of the world proletariat as the enclosures of the land, the conquest and colonization of the 'New World,' and the slave trade.

Documenting the horrors of state terror against women, Federici has written a book truly of our times. Neither compromising nor condescending, Caliban and the Witch expresses an unfailing generosity of spirit and the dignity of a planetary scholar. It is both a passionate work of memory recovered and a hammer of humanity's agenda." - Peter Linebaugh, author of The London Hanged